The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

This narrow street is packed with street vendors and bars selling chicha.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.

The first hospital in the New World.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.

The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

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

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

Cavemen, elephants, and eagles greet passengers driving through the town's main intersection.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

The Seven Story Pagoda of Sibu.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.