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

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

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

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.

A local landmark that has become a hub of graffiti and urban exploration.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

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

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

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.