Wat Khunaram (Phra Wihan Luang Pho Daeng)

The draw here is a body. Luang Pho Daeng, a monk who died in the 1970s, sits upright in a glass case in his own shrine, still in the meditation posture he held at the end. It sounds macabre written down. In person it reads more as sobering, and people tend to go quiet in front of it. That single shrine gives a fairly modest temple a weight that bigger, flashier complexes on the island don't have.

The rest of the grounds are what you'd expect from a working Thai temple: traditional buildings, statues, a bit of garden. What makes it worth the extra fifteen minutes is that this is still a functioning place of worship. You'll see locals praying and making merit while tour groups shuffle past with cameras. Go early if you can. By late morning the coaches from the ring road start rolling in and the mood shifts.