Places vijayhm Wants to Go

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

Lifelike statue of the Chinese philosopher in the bathtub.

An enormous effigy of the goddess of compassion hides within the sanctuary.

The world's foremost museum dedicated entirely to the abacus.

This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.