Places Clapham Adventures Wants to Go

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

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

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

Parts of this sprawling temple complex are deteriorating, but its founder’s body remains intact.

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

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

This statue took 60 years to complete.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

The pillars inside this small, ornate shrine hold Bangkok's horoscope within them.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

This most unusual dragon is made of recycled Chinese cutlery.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

Displaying religious art made almost exclusively in modern styles helps set this Buddhist temple apart from the myriad others in Bangkok.

"Bangkok's Green Lung," a large park on an island, feels worlds away from traffic-choked Sukhumvit Road.

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

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

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

Limestone outcrop decorated with a large laser engraving of the Buddha.