A museum with a window view of the Himalayas and an on-site climbing wall.

This Kathmandu museum, built in an Austrian modernist style, looks like a set from Star Wars.

Nepal's first aviation museum found a logical home in the most unexpected place.

Visitors to the National Museum of Nepal can moon over a set of well-traveled flags.

Jumping-off point for a climb up Mt. Everest is the most dangerous airport in the world.

This remote Himalayan temple is in danger of being completely washed away by a melting glacier.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

This elegant neoclassical garden is a peaceful oasis in the middle of the Nepalese capital.

Delhi's oldest Christian cemetery is also said to be one of the most haunted in the region.

The former Willingdon Airport started operations in 1929, in India's capital, Delhi. Now, it's used for maintenance runs and helicopter rides.

This disputed mass of ice is home to the highest battleground on Earth.

A monument to the British doctor who connected mosquitoes to malaria.

Inside the dome of this gigantic, Saturn-shaped building is one of the largest planetariums in Asia.

This 15th-century mosque is a beautiful blend of Hindu and Islamic architecture.

This sprawling stronghold has been at the center of some of South India's bloodiest wars.

A pair of nearly 1,000-year-old temples profusely covered in meticulous stone carvings.

Kolkata’s only Portuguese church has a curious link with chickens.

This ruined relic of the medieval city of Jahanpanah is a quiet oasis in the middle of New Delhi.

This diminutive yet beautiful local stepwell once yielded enough water to irrigate the lush fields of the village.

A gray market run by Burmese Indians offers a portal to a forgotten period in history.

A favorite haunt of Delhi's politicos and intellectuals, this old-school coffee shop was shut down under Indira Gandhi's Emergency.

The tallest statue in the world is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

The site of an atrocity that would be used to justify Britain’s conquest of India.