A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

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

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.

One of the biggest markets in Asia, under one of the continent's largest domes.

The capital of Cambodia is named after the hill on which this ancient temple complex stands.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

This quiet, unassuming spot in Budapest was the birthplace of the bloody 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

The bridge that cost Germany a World Heritage Site.

A bridge that has seen many reiterations over its lifetime.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.