A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

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

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

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

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Temple of a million beers.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

Built by King Norodom to honor his late father.

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

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.