Places Riki Wants to Go

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

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

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

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

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

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

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

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

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

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

A Buddhist shrine in a cave protected by macaques next to dark passages lined with creepy paintings.

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

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

From dragonfruit to mangoes to durian this Thailand resort allows guests to stay inside all manner of giant fruit.

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

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

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

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

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