Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.

A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.