Places Catexboom Wants to Go

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

Temple of a million beers.

How often do you find security guards patrolling tropical beaches to protect rare sea turtles from poachers? 

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.