The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.
Japan's first capital: the Great Buddha of Todai-ji and 1,200 bowing deer in the park around it.
The Great Buddha sitting in the open air, Zen temples and a surf beach, an hour from Tokyo.
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.
The 2,000-year-old sacred city: giant brick stupas and the oldest planted tree with a known date.
A Tibetan Buddhist town at 3,500 metres in Ladakh, monasteries on rocks and the road to Pangong lake.
The dzong at the meeting of two rivers, the old winter capital, with jacaranda in spring.
The Potala Palace at 3,650 metres, pilgrims prostrating around the Jokhang and the Barkhor market.
The Longmen Grottoes with 100,000 carved Buddhas, the first Buddhist temple in China and the April peony festival.
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