Places CaveVex Wants to Go

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

From dragonfruit to mangoes to durian this Thailand resort allows guests to stay inside all manner of giant fruit.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

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

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

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

A Soviet-era health spa complete with radioactive bathing and shock therapy.

A tropical rainforest designed to resemble a scene from the monumental film.

A Scottish tycoon’s unfinished mansion is known as one of Malaysia’s most haunted buildings.

A sprawling tropical paradise offers a taste of fruits from around the world.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

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

Taiwan's only erotically-themed restaurant brings the comedy back to sex and dinner.

A once-shattered school now preserves a visible fault line, showcasing Taiwan's traumatic 1999 earthquake.

This abandoned prison is now a museum chronicling the oppression of political prisoners in the not-so-distant past.

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.

An antiquated aquarium housed in a converted government anti-nuclear bunker.