Places dmatlock Wants to Go

The long underground cave's curiously shaped stalagmites have inspired many legends.

A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

Temple of a million beers.

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

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

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

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

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.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.