Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

The cursed island of black pebbles.

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

Nearly three tons of weapons from the Vietnam War still remain in this small, hidden museum.

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

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

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

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

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

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

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

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.