Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

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

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

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

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

These centuries old gardens have been restored to their 17th century condition.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.