Places AnAn Wants to Go

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Giant Buddhas carved into sandstone walls line this Laotian motorbike route.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

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

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

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

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

This terrifying glass bridge on the side of a mountain cracks as you step on it.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

Sculptures of religious figures made from the ashes of pilgrims' incense.

The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

Visit Taiwan’s badlands, which allows visitors to feel like they’re walking on the moon.

Nestled between the Sicao Green Tunnel and Dazhong Temple, an antiquated exhibition hall boasts the complete skeletons of mother and child sperm whales.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?