Places kcleland67 Wants to Go

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

Climb a set of vertiginous stone steps to the top of this impressive ancient edifice.

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.

This Buddhist monastery once housed an image of Buddha containing a 19-carat diamond.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

This magnificent white pagoda was constructed to resemble a sacred Buddhist mountain.

The knock-off oil painting capital of the world.

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

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.

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

This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

A mostly desolate bar on a remote island hosts hundreds of sailors for a few days each year.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.