Places douglasrjordan Wants to Go

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

These palatial ruins said to be inspired by Cambodia's Angkor Wat have been turned into a significant religious temple.

An eclectic Buddhist temple packed with pop-culture icons.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.

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

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

This imprint of an old computer keyboard has a unique backstory.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.