One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

There are millions of temples in India, but only one prominent temple dedicated to the Hindu creator god.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."