Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A Mayan village preserved for centuries in volcanic ash.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

Museum of Fijian history, including its former tradition of cannibalism.