Places jaimeelincoln Wants to Go

An immersive exhibition that meditates on death and life.

An enormous Buddha peers through a gap in its ruined chamber.

The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.

How often do you find security guards patrolling tropical beaches to protect rare sea turtles from poachers? 

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

World War II ended before these tunnels built to protect vital oil from Japanese bombs were ever used.

A defensive fortification carved into a cliff near Sydney Harbour.

This large lake in Central Australia contains an estimated 600 million tons of salt.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

For nearly 50 years this airplane that crashed during World War II remained missing in the remote Australian backcountry.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

Standing in celebration of where the cattle dog was bred.

Once an aquarium, this sanctuary now rescues sharks and rays from fishing nets.

This gold mine–turned–swimming hole is the perfect summer picnic spot, immersed in nature and history.

Australia's first open air museum and antique 3D theater.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work.

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

A spectacular impact crater in the rugged heart of Central Australia.

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.