Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

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

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

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

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

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

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

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

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

A former palace that showcases weapons, jewelry, clothing, furniture, musical instruments, and more from the Peshwa Era.

This basalt temple in the center of Pune was built more than 250 years ago.

In an arid region, this beautiful lake in the Aravalli hills is an unexpected delight.

A 19th-century church in South Mumbai built to commemorate those who died in the First Anglo-Afghan War and the retreat from Kabul in 1842.

The lone remnant of a 16th-century palace in Old Goa.

Inside this Darjeeling museum, you can see a pair of boots that once stood at the top of the world.