Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

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

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

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

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

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

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

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Outsider Art Community.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.