Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

This remote Himalayan temple is in danger of being completely washed away by a melting glacier.

An Indian forest is being single-handedly planted after its creator was inspired by a slither of dead snakes.

Made by a man on a worldwide sanitation crusade.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

The world's largest reclining Buddha, the Giant Buddha of Mudon.

Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

A Buddha-filled cave that is named after a giant monster spider.

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

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.

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

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Known as the wettest place on earth.

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

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

These muddy eruptions are less deadly than actual volcanoes but also more holy.

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