Places DE Wants to Go

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

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

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

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

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

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

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

Annual street carnival celebrating Indonesian heritage.

This Javanese-Hindu temple from the 15th century is unmissable for anyone with even a passing interest in erotic art.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

In this Balinese village, coconut shells containing placentas are hung from trees.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.