Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

This nugget of paradise earned its name for obvious reasons.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

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

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

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

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

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.