Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

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

The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

The long underground cave's curiously shaped stalagmites have inspired many legends.

A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

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

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

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.