Visit Luoyang

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

71-metre Buddha carved into a river cliff in Sichuan — the largest stone Buddha in the world.

Ruined former Siamese capital, UNESCO-listed.

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.

Cycle among the lotus-pond temples of Thailand’s first capital, a serene UNESCO site without Ayutthaya’s crowds.

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

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