Places eharjes Wants to Go

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.