Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

The remains of this RAF plane and its crew were lost for decades, nearly engulfed by the Malaysian jungle.

Malaysia's floating mosque.

This tiny island in the South China Sea is crawling with venomous sea snakes.

Malaysia's first and only glass temple.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

Extravagant mosque honors modern Islam.

This dangerous-looking suspension bridge may have been too unstable to remain open.

These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.