Places ameliabryant Wants to Go

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

Sometimes known as the little Niagara Falls of the Philippines.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

Hidden deep within a Filipino jungle is an incredible waterfall that plunges into a dazzling blue-green pool.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

Watch butterflies take flight before you fly.

This jam-packed Singapore antique museum preserves the fading remnants of a uniquely mixed culture.

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.

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

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

One of Indonesia's tallest, this waterfall takes a 390-foot plunge into the Lake Toba caldera.

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.

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

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

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

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.