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

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

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

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

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

This elephant kraal is the only one remaining in Thailand, dating back to the 16th century when these massive mammals were integral players in war and trade.

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

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

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

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

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

Dedicated to improving the plight of the rare scaly anteater.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.