Places scheung Wants to Go

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.

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

The unique design was created by the traditional way communal rice paddies were divided among the indigenous people.

Visitors to this museum will find architectural oddities, an art gallery, and an unlikely bird sanctuary.

This Javanese-Hindu temple from the 15th century is unmissable for anyone with even a passing interest in erotic art.

Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.

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

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

Annual street carnival celebrating Indonesian heritage.

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

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

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

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

A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.