A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

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

This statue took 60 years to complete.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This stone tower was built to protect Crete from incoming pirates.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

A stunning church overlooking the water that you will have all to yourself.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.