Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

Giant relaxing Buddha in Malaysia.

A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand.

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

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.