When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

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

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

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

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.