Places andrewjpl Wants to Go

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

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

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

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

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

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

What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.

Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.

The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

The shipyards along the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital are a flurry dangerous boat breaking and rebuilding.

A beautiful stretch of Bangladeshi river known for its high quality sand is possibly more remarkable for its color changing water.

Where giant ships go to die.

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.