A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

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

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

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

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.