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Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

Osogbo, Nigeria

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.

World's Largest Book at Kuthodaw Pagoda

Mandalay, Myanmar

World's Largest Book at Kuthodaw Pagoda

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

Nat Taung Kyaung.

Taungbi, Myanmar

Nat Taung Kyaung

Amazingly, this centuries-old wooden monastery is still standing today.

Mya Thein Tan Pagoda

Min Kun, Myanmar

Mya Thein Tan Pagoda

This magnificent white pagoda was constructed to resemble a sacred Buddhist mountain.

Pegu Club

Yangon, Myanmar

Pegu Club

An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.

Deserted 20 lane road

Naypyitaw, Myanmar

The Road through Naypyidaw

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.

Shwenandaw Kyaung Temple

Mandalay, Myanmar

Shwenandaw Kyaung Temple

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

Snake Pagoda of Myanmar

Kyaukse, Myanmar

Snake Pagoda of Myanmar

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

Gilded statues inside the complex

Myanmar

Thanboddhay Pagoda

Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

Monastery at the top of Mount Popa (Flickr/antwerpenR)

Myingyan, Myanmar

Mount Popa

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

Kyaiktiyo pagoda, Golden Rock.

Thaton District, Myanmar

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

Buddhist statues dominate the entrance

Hpa-An, Myanmar

Saddar Cave

Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.

Shwedagon Pagoda

Yangon, Myanmar

Shwedagon Pagoda

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

Maha Aungmye Bonzan (Me Nu Oak Kyaung) Monastery

Inn Wa, Myanmar

Inwa

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

Kakku Pagodas.

Myanmar

Kakku Pagodas

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

Bagan.

Nyaung-U, Myanmar

Bagan

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

The Bishop is the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Honolulu, Hawaii

Bishop Museum

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Iolani Palace

Honolulu, Hawaii

Iolani Palace

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The Apple II historic site includes model structures built to study the effects of a nuclear detonation on a population center.

Mercury, Nevada

Nevada National Security Site

A desert journey through atomic history.

The Grave of Ignacy Paderewski’s Heart

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

The Grave of Ignacy Paderewski’s Heart

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.

Pyramid of Tirana

Tirana, Albania

Pyramid of Tirana

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Cemi Museum against the mountains

Jayuya, Puerto Rico

El Cemi Museum

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

Outside of the Museum.

Wytheville, Virginia

Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

The Archaearium

Williamsburg, Virginia

The Archaearium

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

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