This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Home to pygmy hunter-gatherers, hundreds of animal and bird species, and the strange okapi, or forest giraffe.

An enormous Buddha peers through a gap in its ruined chamber.

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

Cavemen, elephants, and eagles greet passengers driving through the town's main intersection.

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

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

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

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

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

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

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

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Enigmatic tombs and cave dwellings on the outskirts of a rural village.

Hidden beneath a restaurant, underground tunnels tell the story of Malta’s tragic role in World War II.

Dynastic Home of the De Piro Family.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.