Visit Persepolis

Xi'an's buried army of clay warriors.

Maya city of carved stelae, UNESCO-listed.

Darius the Great cut his story into a cliff in three languages; the Rosetta Stone of cuneiform.

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

Colossal stone heads ringing a mountaintop royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

The guardian lion of the Giza plateau.

Ramesses II's colossal rock-cut temples.

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