Places escapementality Wants to Go

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

A massive statue depicts Jesus as if he's about to take off in flight.

The country’s first escalator is located in department store filled with batiks and beautiful Indonesian products.

Concrete balls on wires constructed to stop train surfing in Indonesia.

After a 2004 tsunami, this stranded boat was left in place.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.

In this rare traditional factory, three generations of know-how, several strong cows, and a one-ton mortar come together to make Yogyakarta's famous "ugly noodles."

In this Balinese village, coconut shells containing placentas are hung from trees.

An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.

This underwater sculpture park is the basis for a manmade coral reef.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.