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An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.

An eerie cluster of medieval cave-like tombs carved out of a cliff, hidden in a historic mountain pass.

A monument commemorating the execution of 26 canonized Christians from the 16th century.

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

Villagers have recycled bomber fuel tanks from the Vietnam War and turned them into very, very strong boats.

This mysteriously shaped boulder may have been used for human sacrifice in ancient times.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

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

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.

The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.

A unique Buddhist temple with strange statues, beehives, and dinosaurs.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.