Places pleiades Wants to Go

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.

A glimpse into the festive and private lives of medieval Europe.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

This heart-shaped lake near the border of India and Myanmar is deeply rooted in Mizo folklore.

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

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

A vast, otherworldly collection of Buddhist stupas.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

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

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.