Visit the Bayon temple

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

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

The temple left to the jungle — silk-cotton roots strangle its walls, famous from Tomb Raider.

Eighth-century Buddhist temple of stone pagodas and painted halls, paired with the Seokguram grotto Buddha above it.

Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.

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

Ruined former Siamese capital, UNESCO-listed.

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