Ko Samui, Thailand
Wat Phra Yai (Big Buddha Temple)
A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Ko Samui, Thailand
A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.
Ngong Ping, Hong Kong
Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.
Singapore
This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.
Singapore
Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.
London, England
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
London, England
The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.
London, England
The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
London, England
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten
Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.
Barbados
This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.
Willemstad, Curaçao
The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A macabre sculpture museum in the capital of Haiti fuses human bones with broken metal to create challenging contemporary art.
Santa Clara, Cuba
This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.
Havana, Cuba
After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.
Havana, Cuba
Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.
Havana, Cuba
His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."
Havana, Cuba
In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.