Places Russferatu Wants to Go

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

Displaying religious art made almost exclusively in modern styles helps set this Buddhist temple apart from the myriad others in Bangkok.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

Sidle up for this Chinatown watering hole for Thai moonshine accompanied by traditional live tunes.

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

A palace-fortress ruin in Indonesia complete with legends of two magical tigers, eight bathing angels, and a wish-granting cannon.

This historic 17th-century site once served as a secluded meditation retreat.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.

Of five volcanoes located in the massive Tengger caldera, this cone is the youngest and most active.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

A unique Buddhist temple with strange statues, beehives, and dinosaurs.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

This serene bamboo walkway allows Buddhist monks from remote temples access to the nearby village.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.

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

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

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

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

This hilltop shrine is colloquially known as "Sex Mountain" for the ritual practices once conducted there.

An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.