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Jessica ONeill

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Jessica is a London tour guide, writer, neon sign historian, and negative heritage scholar, who loves Herzog films, late-night poutine, and petting your dog. She can be reached for alternative tours of London and Margate at jessicatourguide@gmail.com
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Highgate Cemetery

London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Mountain View Cemetery

Vancouver, British Columbia

Mountain View Cemetery

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

Point Roberts.

Point Roberts, Washington

Point Roberts

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Crossbones Graveyard

London, England

Crossbones Graveyard

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Hang Sung Sot

Halong City, Vietnam

Hang Sung Sot

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

The temple.

Bangkok, Thailand

Wat Mahathat (Temple of the Great Relic)

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum-Ha Noi

Hanoi, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Sigiriya

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka

Sigiriya

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

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.

Massive bomb remnants outside Craters (Flickr/Paul Carson / Embikei Images)

Phonsavan, Laos

Craters Restaurant

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

Plain of Jars site 1.

Phonsavan, Laos

Plain of Jars

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Kolukkumalai Tea Estate

Munnar, India

Kolukkumalai Tea Estate

At 8,000 feet, the world's highest tea estate draws visitors for both its products and its panoramic views.

Tham Sakkarin Savannakuha

Luang Prabang, Laos

Tham Sakkarin Savannakuha

Abandoned limestone cave was once a sacred place of worship.

Illuminated at night by 97,000 bulbs

Mysore, India

Mysore Palace

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

Wat Rong Khun

Chiang Rai, Thailand

Wat Rong Khun

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Auroville

Bommayapalayam, India

Auroville

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

Reliquary of St. Francis Xavier

Velha Goa, India

Body of St. Francis Xavier

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

Hampi

Hampi, India

Hampi

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

Shwenandaw Kyaung Temple

Mandalay, Myanmar

Shwenandaw Kyaung Temple

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

Monastery at the top of Mount Popa (Flickr/antwerpenR)

Myingyan, Myanmar

Mount Popa

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

The stupa entrance (Flickr/druidabruxux)

Min Kun, Myanmar

The Mingun Pagoda and Bell

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

Gilded statues inside the complex

Myanmar

Thanboddhay Pagoda

Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

Wagah Flag Ceremony

Hardo Rattan, India

Wagah Flag Ceremony

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

Sir Edwin Arnold thought Hawa Mahal was "a vision of daring and dainty loveliness, of storeys of rosy masonry and delicate overhanging balconies and latticed windows. Soaring with tier after tier of fanciful architecture in a pyramidal form, a very mountain of airy and audacious beauty through the thousand pierced screens and gilded arches of which the Indian air blows cool over the flat roofs of the very highest house." As quoted in, Delhi Agra Jaipur, by Surendra Sahai.  See more at https://kimcarpenterphotos.smugmug.com/Hawa-Mahal-Jaipur-India/.

Jaipur, India

Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds)

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

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