Places Dunbar Loop Wants to Go

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

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A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.

Temple-like building holds power equipment.

The Seven Story Pagoda of Sibu.

The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

The largest Chinese cemetery in the world outside of China dates back to the 15th century.

Giant relaxing Buddha in Malaysia.

Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.

Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia is a monument to a disappearing community.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

The remains of this RAF plane and its crew were lost for decades, nearly engulfed by the Malaysian jungle.