Places oneoftheniners21 Wants to Go

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

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

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

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

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 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

A historic house devoted to the teachings of a 1700's prophetess and her mysterious box of revelations.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

This ancient bridge made of stone slabs is said to be reserved for the devil to sunbathe.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.