Visit the Garni Temple

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

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

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.

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