Places wheretonext Wants to Go

Isaan street food staples are in spectacular form at this no-frills institution.

Visit a century-old sweet shop serving gold-standard mango sticky rice.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.

This Costa Rican chapel is the most metal church in the world, literally.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

Hundreds of signs pointing to the birthplaces of current Helsinki residents form stalactites on the ceiling of the cave-like Kamppi metro station.

In the waters outside Helsinki, a tiny island once used as a military outpost now welcomes visitors.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

This honeycomb-textured tafone looks like a petrified troll head.