Places emmamountuk Wants to Go

A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

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

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

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

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

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

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

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

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

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.