A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

A natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

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

The oldest teak bridge in the world is made from the remains of a royal palace.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

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

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