Places Aksel Wants to Go

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

The world's first floating farm is staffed by one human, three robots, and 35 cows.

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

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

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

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

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

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

One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.

In this Balinese village, coconut shells containing placentas are hung from trees.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

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

Bali’s Mother Temple, a breathtaking complex that rises serenely up the side of an active volcano.

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 well kept and well documented look at the Bruneian Sultan's life and successes.

1800 rooms of single-family residence in Brunei.

A remote lodge nestled among some of the world's best-preserved rainforests.

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.