Visit the Banteay Srei temple

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

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

Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.

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

Ramesses II's colossal rock-cut temples.

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

Boulder-strewn ruins of the Vijayanagara empire along the Tungabhadra river.

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