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

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.

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

The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.

Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

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

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

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

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

Half of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ashes were buried in Armenia.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

A towering spire in the fortress of Kalemegdan honors the victorious armies of Serbia during their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.

The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.