Places Edward Denny Wants to Go

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

Peek into the world of those creating the beautiful, delicate paper parasols found all over the globe.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.