This tiny island in the South China Sea is crawling with venomous sea snakes.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

Extravagant mosque honors modern Islam.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

Malaysia's first and only glass temple.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.

Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

Stelae-eyed stones greet visitors to a corner of Kirov Park.

Local lore says this 700-year-old tree has sacred and medicinal properties.

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

Iconic pyramid from famed British architect Norman Foster designed to represent all of the world's religious faiths.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

An unusual monument to a gentle giant who became a Kyrgyz hero.