The pillars inside this small, ornate shrine hold Bangkok's horoscope within them.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.

In a strip mall parking lot, an airplane with a cafe inside, flanked by a giant statue of Fred Flintstone.

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

Limestone outcrop decorated with a large laser engraving of the Buddha.

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A gathering of green robots at the Googleplex.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.