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

Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

The first religious structure on the island of Luzon and a survivor of World War II.

A monument dedicated in memory of the over 100,000 civilian deaths during the liberation of Manila in World War II.

Once a crime hotspot, this refurbished underpass is now home to a bookstore and a mural celebrating the history of Manila.

This iconic clock tower is the largest in the Philippines.

These bamboo and rope bridges cross the Nam Khan River for six months every year.

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.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.

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

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Under Hanoi’s medieval citadel sits a secret military headquarters from the final years of the Vietnam War.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.