Osogbo, Nigeria
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.
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Osogbo, Nigeria
The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.
Mandalay, Myanmar
This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."
Taungbi, Myanmar
Amazingly, this centuries-old wooden monastery is still standing today.
Min Kun, Myanmar
This magnificent white pagoda was constructed to resemble a sacred Buddhist mountain.
Yangon, Myanmar
An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.
Naypyitaw, Myanmar
A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.
Mandalay, Myanmar
A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.
Kyaukse, Myanmar
These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.
Myanmar
Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.
Myingyan, Myanmar
Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.
Thaton District, Myanmar
A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.
Hpa-An, Myanmar
Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.
Yangon, Myanmar
This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.
Inn Wa, Myanmar
A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.
Myanmar
This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.
Nyaung-U, Myanmar
Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.
Mercury, Nevada
A desert journey through atomic history.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Jayuya, Puerto Rico
This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.
Wytheville, Virginia
The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."
Williamsburg, Virginia
This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.