A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

A place for local artists to showcase their works.

Designed to honor the birthplace of Buddha.

This memorial honors a village that was destroyed during a 2015 earthquake.

The site where Sakyamuni Buddha first met his father after achieving enlightenment.

Nepal is home to the world’s tallest Shiva statue.

This restaurant preserves and serves lesser-known and regional Nepali food.

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

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.

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

Last stop before the top of the highest peak in the world.

Where you'll find anything but nothing.

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

According to myth, there's a bloody explanation for the beautiful bright red color of this rock formation set amidst alpine vegetation.

These oldest of these "embroidered stones" were carved 4,000 years ago in a high mountain valley.

This village was once a thriving Soviet uranium mining center, but is now semi-abandoned and desolate.

This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.

A stunning blue-green lake located in the Terskey Alatau mountain range.

On the shores of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Lake, a family cooks a feast that tells the sad tale of a people's exile.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

Glacial lake that mysteriously empties itself every year.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.