Seven beautiful 1,000-year-old rock-cut Buddhist statues.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

To gaze upon the visage of Sri Lanka's biggest Buddha, one must first pass through the Tunnel of Hell.

This mesmerizing architectural wonder will take your breath away with its unusual color patterns.

Once thought to be the Garden of Eden it holds a holy footprint claimed to belong to Adam, Buddha and Shiva.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

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

Peek into the world of those creating the beautiful, delicate paper parasols found all over the globe.

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

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

A quiet patch of astroturf laid out between a building that seems to be splitting in half.

This North Korean pegasus statue was built as a symbol of the speed and perseverance of North Korean workers.

A former palace transformed into a mausoleum for North Korea's supreme leaders.