Places PLite Wants to Go

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.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

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

This statue took 60 years to complete.

This elegant carving of the Buddha guards a small Buddhist temple within a cave.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

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

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

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

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

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

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

During World War II, Austria's oldest salt mine was used to store thousands of pieces of stolen artwork.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.