Places Edited by Alex Timian

Warrior training: The Indonesian tourist trap.

15,000 year old bison sculptures.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

The hottest place on the planet.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

The coldest city in the world.

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Southern Mexico under the influence of mushrooms, ceremony and celebrity.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

China's beehive-shaped pyramids house the remains of a lost kingdom.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

The temple that withstood the Nazis.

A wild Hollywood resort thwarted by mosquitoes.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Beach instrument turned bed and breakfast.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

China's mysterious record-setting sleeping Buddha.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.