Places deriverative Wants to Go

A colorful gateway to a historic neighborhood.

An enormous white temple that honors the birthplace of a Hindu goddess.

Lake Phewa is home to the only island temple in Nepal.

These crumbling walls serve as a reminder of the golden age of safaris in Chitwan National Park.

This pilgrimage site was built to honor an incarnation of Buddha who sacrificed himself to save a tiger and her two cubs.

A pair of stupas that archaeologists believe were built to honor the parents of Siddhartha Gautama (aka Lord Buddha).

The courtyard of this palace was the site of the worst slaughter of sitting royals in recorded history.

A Buddhist nunnery perched high above Kathmandu Valley in the foothills of the Himalayas.

A remote area dotted with Buddhist temples and monasteries.

Nepal's unclimbable sacred peak.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

The place that allegedly inspired James Hilton's depiction of Shangri-La.

Space-age minarets towering over Islamabad.

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

A 17th-century mosque that was used for war more than worship.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

Tibetan-influenced mountain fortress in Northern Pakistan.

Lunar landscape, a mud volcano and bizarre rock formations.

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.