Visit Hampi

Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.

Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.

The "citadel of women": pink sandstone carved so finely it is called the jewel of Khmer art.

Colonnaded temple in the middle of Luxor, best at night when the pharaonic statues and obelisk are floodlit.

Nubian Aswan’s feluccas and islands, plus the Temple of Isis moved stone by stone to escape the rising Nile.

Kushite temples standing alone in the desert east of the Nile.

Sanctuary of Apollo on the slopes of Mount Parnassus — home of the ancient oracle.

Ruined former Siamese capital, UNESCO-listed.