Buddhism

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.

Comprised of thousands of cave temple carvings this cornucopia of ancient Chinese stone art is unrivaled anywhere in the world.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.