Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

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

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.