The country’s first escalator is located in department store filled with batiks and beautiful Indonesian products.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

This underwater sculpture park is the basis for a manmade coral reef.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

Concrete balls on wires constructed to stop train surfing in Indonesia.

The largest Spanish artifact built in the Philippines and one of the oldest underground reservoirs in the world.

The only remaining section of an aqueduct that used to supply water to Manila during the Spanish occupation.

A rare surviving stone building from the Spanish colonial era.

The first building in the Philippines with an elevator.

A century-old ancestral home was home to some of the key figures of the Philippine Revolution.

A church made of steel.

The cemetery was built for the Spanish colonial elite, but its most famous residents were all buried in unmarked graves.

Once an art-deco theater, now a supermarket.

This historic Art Deco building embellished with local tropical fruits had fallen into disrepair before a recent restoration.

Known as Manila's "last lung," this park used to house a market, garrison, and various government buildings.

This piece of the Berlin Wall symbolizes the shared German and Filipino struggles for freedom.

Once a crime hotspot, this refurbished underpass is now home to a bookstore and a mural celebrating the history of Manila.

This iconic clock tower is the largest in the Philippines.

A monument dedicated in memory of the over 100,000 civilian deaths during the liberation of Manila in World War II.

The first religious structure on the island of Luzon and a survivor of World War II.

Dedicated to the three priests whose execution inspired author José Rizal.

A melting pot of Asian-Pacific art features one symbolic sculpture from each of 20 different nations.

A film center envisioned to rival Cannes ended up as a haunted place after at least 168 people were killed during the rushed construction.