American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

This Khmer temple is named after a young woman who sacrificed herself to protect the city from a disastrous deluge.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

One in a series of historical markers from the massive 19th-century undertaking to map all of India.

This cupola was once seen as an architectural disaster.

The octagonal tower at this important Buddhist site was added many years after the temple's initial construction.

This basalt temple in the center of Pune was built more than 250 years ago.

These animal carvings stand as representations of India and Britain.

This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.