Places Shwexploration Wants to Go

The only remaining section of an aqueduct that used to supply water to Manila during the Spanish occupation.

Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

These tiered rice paddies were carved into the hillsides 2,000 years ago.

A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.

Nearly 100 concrete graves lie hidden just beyond the pristine waters along the coast.

Church organ in the Philippines constructed out of bamboo.

This belfry is all that remains of the town that was buried by a violent volcano eruption.

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

Some locals believe the fabled lost gold of General Yamashida is hiding somewhere beneath the city.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

Hidden deep within a Filipino jungle is an incredible waterfall that plunges into a dazzling blue-green pool.

The once-grand remains of this resort are slowly turning into the strange ruins of the future.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.