A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

A palace destined to never house a king.

An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.

The abandoned airport is a strangely intact remnant of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

The capital of Cambodia is named after the hill on which this ancient temple complex stands.

One of the biggest markets in Asia, under one of the continent's largest domes.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

Originally a meeting place for foreign correspondents and war reporters, the FCC remains an atmospheric spot for sunset drinks in Phnom Penh.

The cursed island of black pebbles.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.