Places CaveVex Wants to Go

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

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

This Khmer temple is named after a young woman who sacrificed herself to protect the city from a disastrous deluge.

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

Spend the night inside a two-story elephant villa.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

This retro, UFO-like structure is a remnant of the Soviet-era circus.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

A unique interactive bronze sculpture that captures a real-life viral rescue.

The Russian author's writing desk remains inside the house where he spent part of his Siberian exile.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.