The 10,000 Torii shrine.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

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

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

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

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The birthplace of modern China.