Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

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

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

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

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

This volcano in the Philippines is believed to have miraculous healing powers.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

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

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

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

This belfry is all that remains of the town that was buried by a violent volcano eruption.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

A well kept and well documented look at the Bruneian Sultan's life and successes.

Malaysia's floating mosque.

A small statue of child Jesus given by Magellan in 1521

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.