Bangkok, Thailand
Democracy Monument
Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.
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Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.
Bangkok, Thailand
A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.
Bangkok, Thailand
On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.
Ubud, Indonesia
Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.
East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.
Gili Meno, Indonesia
A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.
Kelimutu, Indonesia
Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.
North Coogee, Australia
The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.
Box Hill, Australia
A local landmark that has become a hub of graffiti and urban exploration.
Tokyo, Japan
A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.
Kyoto, Japan
Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
Barcelona, Spain
An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Belchite, Spain
A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”
Dunedin, New Zealand
One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.
Cardrona, New Zealand
Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.
Takaka, New Zealand
Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.
Hampden, New Zealand
Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.
Fox Glacier, New Zealand
A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.