Places JCarmine13 Wants to Go

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

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

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

A unique Buddhist temple with strange statues, beehives, and dinosaurs.

This statue took 60 years to complete.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

Limestone outcrop decorated with a large laser engraving of the Buddha.

A sculpture garden built by a retired durian farmer.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

Parts of this sprawling temple complex are deteriorating, but its founder’s body remains intact.

In Phetchaburi, Thailand, a roadside vendor cooks his fare with 1,000 mirrors and the power of the sun.

An underwater temple submerged for 20 years has resurfaced with an extreme drought.

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

You'll never meet anyone this passionate about elephant droppings.