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

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

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 tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Singapore's oldest Hindu temple.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

The site of the last royal wedding in Korea.

The supreme shrine of the state.

The burial ground of two kings and a queen is now a calm city park in the middle of bustling Seoul.

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

A unique structure located on the grounds of one of five grand palaces that were built by the Joseon dynasty.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

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