In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

This prefabricated building was built in Belgium and shipped to Mozambique but was never inhabited, since its iron exterior was unsuitable for the tropical environment.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

This horseshoe-shaped waterfall is the second-largest on the African continent.

This striking otherworldly landscape outside Angola's capital city is the product of millions of years of erosion.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

This elegant carving of the Buddha guards a small Buddhist temple within a cave.

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

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

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

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

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

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

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

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.