A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

From dragonfruit to mangoes to durian this Thailand resort allows guests to stay inside all manner of giant fruit.

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

The oldest teak bridge in the world is made from the remains of a royal palace.

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

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.