This statue took 60 years to complete.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

This most unusual dragon is made of recycled Chinese cutlery.

The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.

"Bangkok's Green Lung," a large park on an island, feels worlds away from traffic-choked Sukhumvit Road.

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.

This Khmer temple is named after a young woman who sacrificed herself to protect the city from a disastrous deluge.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

In the world's most bombed country relative to its size, this incredible organization helps pick up the pieces.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

These bamboo and rope bridges cross the Nam Khan River for six months every year.

Abandoned limestone cave was once a sacred place of worship.

Experience history from the stomping grounds of the great Scottish poet.

A 17th-century building that once served as the town's courthouse and jail is now a thriving art center.

The former seat of power for the Balliol dynasty.

An unusual building on a "desolate hill" features the works of an Icelandic sculptor.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

This earthwork installation sits on a grassy hill, celebrating Iceland's past and present.