Places vijayhm Wants to Go

A Buddha-filled cave that is named after a giant monster spider.

A vast, otherworldly collection of Buddhist stupas.

The highest bridge in Myanmar was once the tallest railway bridge in the world.

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.

Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.

The world's largest reclining Buddha, the Giant Buddha of Mudon.

The second largest reclining Buddha in the world got "lost" for over 120 years.

The remains of Canada's earliest Chinese pioneers are interred along this picturesque point.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?