Places yochris Wants to Go

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

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

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

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

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

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

A unique collection of Swiss art brut and naïve art displayed in an old warehouse.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.