Pagodas

Pettah's beautiful floating market was once a stinky canal in a sketchy industrial area.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

The tower claims to be the world's only pagoda made entirely from Myanmar's lucrative gemstone.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

A vast, otherworldly collection of Buddhist stupas.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

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

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

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

Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This peaceful, round shrine in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle acts as a beacon of peace.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

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

The Seven Story Pagoda of Sibu.

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