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Langkawi Sky Bridge

Langkawi, Malaysia

Langkawi Sky Bridge

This dangerous-looking suspension bridge may have been too unstable to remain open.

Inside one of the planes
Permanently Closed

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok Airplane Graveyard

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

Superheroes made of condoms.

Bangkok, Thailand

Cabbages & Condoms

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

House of Opium

Sop Ruak, Thailand

House of Opium

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

Bo Sang's handiwork

San Kamphaeng, Thailand

Bo Sang Umbrella Village

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

Baan Dam (Black House)

Chiang Rai, Thailand

Baan Dam (Black House)

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

Wat Rong Khun

Chiang Rai, Thailand

Wat Rong Khun

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Shanghai Marriage Market

Shanghai, China

Shanghai Marriage Market

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

Scale model of Shanghai, including buildings expected to be built by 2020

Shanghai, China

Scale Model of Shanghai

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

Posters with a distincy

Shanghai, China

Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

View of Shanghai and the Oriental Pearl Tower

Shanghai, China

Oriental Pearl Tower

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

European architechture mixes with traditional Chinese iconography throughout the area.

Shanghai, China

Shanghai French Concession

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

Shanghai, China

Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

Sifting for the perfect protection at the market

Bangkok, Thailand

Amulet Market

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

Nightingale-Olympic

Bangkok, Thailand

Nightingale-Olympic

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

The Democracy Monument

Bangkok, Thailand

Democracy Monument

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

Giant Swing

Bangkok, Thailand

Giant Swing

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

Phsar Thmei (Central Market)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Phsar Thmei (Central Market)

One of the biggest markets in Asia, under one of the continent's largest domes.

Formerly used prosthetic limbs are everywhere in the visitor centre.

Vientiane, Laos

COPE Visitor Centre

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

Buddha Park

Vientiane, Laos

Xieng Khuan (Buddha Park)

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Kong Lor Cave.

Laos

Kong Lor Cave

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

Dinosaur

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Dinosaur of Ta Prohm

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia.

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Ta Prohm

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Originally a high school, Tuol Seng was converted into a high security prison.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

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