Places iamangelsummers Wants to Go

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A remote lodge nestled among some of the world's best-preserved rainforests.

One of Bhutan's oldest temples was purportedly built to stop a giant female ogre from preventing the spread of Buddhism across Tibet.

This colorful overpass is one of Bhutan's longest suspension bridges.

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.

One of the largest and most scenic of Bangladesh's tea gardens.

The village's cobblestone streets are lined with shops displaying exquisite copper craftsmanship.

In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

The only place to get cash in Antarctica.

A garden in the middle of the most inhospitable continent.

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

One of America's oldest Antarctic research bases is abandoned but still just waiting for visiting explorers.

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.