Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

These muddy eruptions are less deadly than actual volcanoes but also more holy.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

The world's largest reclining Buddha, the Giant Buddha of Mudon.

The second largest reclining Buddha in the world got "lost" for over 120 years.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

A Buddha-filled cave that is named after a giant monster spider.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

Abandoned limestone cave was once a sacred place of worship.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Bold contestants slide in a rice paddy behind two charging bulls.