Places fkirk10 Wants to Go

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

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

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

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

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Hidden deep within a Filipino jungle is an incredible waterfall that plunges into a dazzling blue-green pool.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

Read a book with a glass of wine at this classically restored bar.