This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Once where royalty entertained guests, this opulent table is now one of the longest in the world.

The roof of one of the world’s largest spice markets provides a grand view over the neighborhood's glorious bustle.

This women-run eatery and cooking school is putting India's long-neglected tribal cuisines back on the menu.

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

A mecca for India's Jains.

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

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

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

This Khmer-era temple includes a lintel that was stolen and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago for years before returning to Thailand.

This mountain sunrise is one of the most breathtaking views in Thailand, yet well off the tourist trail.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.