Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

Pyongyang’s Arch of Triumph is the second tallest triumphal arch in the world.

This North Korean pegasus statue was built as a symbol of the speed and perseverance of North Korean workers.

A former palace transformed into a mausoleum for North Korea's supreme leaders.

A vast museum devoted to North Korea's victories against its imperialist enemies.

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.

This Khmer-era temple includes a lintel that was stolen and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago for years before returning to Thailand.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

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

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

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

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

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

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

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

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

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

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.