Temples

This temple located on a vertical drop of a rocky mountain houses relics from the Song Dynasty.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

This 11th-century temple gave rise to the word "juggernaut," as well as some mysteries that defy scientific explanation.

The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.

This ancient goddess temple inspired the design of India’s Parliament House.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

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

The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

This overlooked Japanese Buddhist temple is a respite from the bustle of Kolkata.