April-June Trip

The cursed island of black pebbles.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

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

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

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The history and future of cannabis.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Art and a pun, all in one.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.