Visit Erdene Zuu Monastery

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.

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

Sunken Byzantine reservoir under Istanbul, its columns rising from black water.

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

The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.

Ruins of one of the great Buddhist monasteries of ancient Bengal.

Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.