The Thai kings’ glittering palace complex and the Emerald Buddha, all gold spires and mirrored mosaic.
Eighth-century Buddhist temple of stone pagodas and painted halls, paired with the Seokguram grotto Buddha above it.
Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.
The capital Myanmar built from farmland in 2005 and moved to overnight: twenty-lane highways with almost nothing on them, and an Uppatasanti Pagoda one foot shorter than Shwedagon.
Mongolia’s oldest Buddhist monastery, walled by 108 stupas on the site of Genghis Khan’s capital, Karakorum.
Majestic riverside fortress-monastery.
Angkor Thom’s central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.
The Temple of Dawn: a porcelain-encrusted riverside tower you can climb for views across the Chao Phraya at sunset.
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