This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Dating back to the second century, vestiges of prehispanic mural paintings are found in this underground palace.

A striking depiction of Teotihuacan's mysterious "Spider Woman."

The former headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education now houses a muralism museum, including Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural project.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.