Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

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

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

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

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

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

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

While it might look like an ordinary chain, this is the shop that turned Thai iced tea into a global phenomenon.

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

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

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

Remainders of the defenses established at the start of the previous era in Thai history

This statue took 60 years to complete.

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

Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.

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

The pillars inside this small, ornate shrine hold Bangkok's horoscope within them.

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

Isaan street food staples are in spectacular form at this no-frills institution.

A small sculpture that pays homage to the famous bronze ear of Ca de l'Oreggia—or does it?

See what remains of a once grand ancient Roman circus.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.