A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

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

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

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

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