Places charleyspoons Wants to Go

This Khmer-era temple includes a lintel that was stolen and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago for years before returning to Thailand.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

In an Auckland neighborhood, looming chopsticks lift noodles from the sidewalk.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

The history of this famed tree ranges from an 18th-century highway robber, to the Scout Association.

This crumbling coast and its teetering tower are literally filled with history, but they are also at great risk of becoming history themselves.

This sculpture pays homage to Shakespeare and his reference to a Manningtree tradition.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

A large piece of modern art makes this roundabout the only one in the world with its own laser.

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

A hunched figure depicted on the signs honors a local gentleman who died on an Antarctic expedition.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

Centuries later, the victims of Great Britain's greatest hysteria are finally being remembered.

This stretch of beach is the site of a prime watering hole and a primate watchtower.

A story of cutlasses carelessly carving a celibate centenarian's cemetery stone.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

Through seven years of burglary, bereavement, and bad luck, a gentleman kept his word by saying none.