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Take a hidden path to the mouth of the cave to watch millions of bats swarm at sunset.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

More than 100 Hindu temples are slowly being swallowed by the forest.

This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

The only such mummy that remains accessible to the public.

Once an art-deco theater, now a supermarket.

This gold sash was part of a massive collection of pre-Hispanic gold artifacts discovered in an isolated village in the Philippines.

This massive Roman Catholic rosary is composed entirely of wood.

Known as Manila's "last lung," this park used to house a market, garrison, and various government buildings.

This holy site either displays a centuries-old cross or a complete fake.

A church made of steel.

These tiered rice paddies were carved into the hillsides 2,000 years ago.

Church organ in the Philippines constructed out of bamboo.

This belfry is all that remains of the town that was buried by a violent volcano eruption.

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

Hidden deep within a Filipino jungle is an incredible waterfall that plunges into a dazzling blue-green pool.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

This enormous statue of the Buddha is a response to the destruction of the Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan.

This site was once the religious, cultural, and trade center of Sri Lanka.

Does this 10-foot-tall statue carved into a rock face depict a king afflicted by a skin condition or a Buddhist figure?

This sacred fig tree with a link to the Buddha is one of the oldest human-planted trees in the world.