This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

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

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

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

An underground city of salt.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

Model trains whizz around an extensive room-sized diorama of Kyoto City.

This lesser-visited gallery in a corner of the Tokyo National Museum complex is an architectural beauty dedicated to the ancient treasures of Hōryū-ji.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.

Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.