An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

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

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.