Places AdrianB Wants to Go

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

A sobering museum dedicated to landmines and the personnel working to remove them from Afghanistan.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

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

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

Parts of this sprawling temple complex are deteriorating, but its founder’s body remains intact.

A sculpture garden built by a retired durian farmer.

An enormous Buddha peers through a gap in its ruined chamber.

This Khmer-era temple includes a lintel that was stolen and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago for years before returning to Thailand.

A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand.

This elegant carving of the Buddha guards a small Buddhist temple within a cave.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

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

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

On the small Thai island of Ko Mak, there is a forgotten garden of erotic statuary.