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The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A sculpture garden built by a retired durian farmer.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

The Thai Army has dug deep trenches along the Thai/Myanmar border to prevent drug smuggling.

Limestone outcrop decorated with a large laser engraving of the Buddha.

Parts of this sprawling temple complex are deteriorating, but its founder’s body remains intact.

An underwater temple submerged for 20 years has resurfaced with an extreme drought.

Cities of the world and famous Thai monuments in minature.

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

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

A shrine honoring a legendary ghost bride lies within this vibrant temple.

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

This mountain sunrise is one of the most breathtaking views in Thailand, yet well off the tourist trail.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.

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

On the small Thai island of Ko Mak, there is a forgotten garden of erotic statuary.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.