Places lmbrown480 Wants to Go

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

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

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

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

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

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

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

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.