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This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

These "50 Fortresses" have been unearthed in the ancient oasis of Khwarezm.

Final palace complex of the last of 29 Kokand rulers.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

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

Thailand's tribute to the original "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng, in the town the famous pair was born in.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.

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

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.