This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

Let these towering termite-building structures tell you where to go.

This Australian beach became famous when Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared from its shores.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

This preserved site served as part of Northern Australia’s defense in World War II.

World War II ended before these tunnels built to protect vital oil from Japanese bombs were ever used.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

Built in the Soviet era, this cableway system still runs gondolas from Odessa down to Otrada Beach.

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

This natural rock formation has an anatomical aesthetic.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

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

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

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

The site of an ancient city pillar that was lost and rediscovered.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

Every year, a sparkling cave is sculpted in the icy heart of a glacier.