Visit Aswan and Philae Temple

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

Ramesses II's colossal rock-cut temples.

Tombs of the pharaohs near Luxor.

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

Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.

Angkor Thom’s central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.

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

Judaism’s holiest prayer site, the retaining wall of the Second Temple.