A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

Two nearly identical Chinese pagodas stand side by side, along with ancient stone relics.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This underwater sculpture park is the basis for a manmade coral reef.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.

Dozens of Soviet-era trains and carriages fill this outdoor museum.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.