Xuân Trạch, Vietnam
Hang Son Doong
World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.
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Xuân Trạch, Vietnam
World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Laem Sak, Thailand
This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.
Mae Klong, Thailand
Thailand's tribute to the original "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng, in the town the famous pair was born in.
Sop Ruak, Thailand
A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.
Tambon Tham Nam Phut, Thailand
Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.
Bangkok, Thailand
A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.
Bangkok, Thailand
A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.
Tambon Saen Suk, Thailand
Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.
Tambon Chiang Haeo, Thailand
Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.
Khujand, Tajikistan
The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.
Rushon, Tajikistan
The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Taiwan's only erotically-themed restaurant brings the comedy back to sex and dinner.
Keelung City, Taiwan
A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.
Green Island, Taiwan
A memorial to the thousands of political dissidents imprisoned during the 40-year period of martial law in Taiwan.
Taipei, Taiwan
A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.