Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

Temple of a million beers.

A Chinese mining company has created the world's first cloned village in this perfect recreation of an Austrian town.

China's most famous acrobatics act.

A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

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

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