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

The cursed island of black pebbles.

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

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

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

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

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

A memorial to the thousands of political dissidents imprisoned during the 38-year period of martial law in Taiwan.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

A Sri Lankan tea factory's ironic take on the Los Angeles landmark.

This Sri Lankan cemetery is the final resting place of sci-fi legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

The ruins of this old church are slowing sinking into the sand.