A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

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

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

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

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

The fight to make Bengali an official language started in this stunning university hall.

Ancient and modern architecture are joined in Louis Kahn's monument to democracy.

The largest and, arguably, most scenic fortress in Bhutan.

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

A well kept and well documented look at the Bruneian Sultan's life and successes.

1800 rooms of single-family residence in Brunei.

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.