Before Phuket and Koh Samui became travel hotspots, there was Hua Hin. Once a sleepy fishing village, Hua Hin became a royal resort and summer retreat in the 1920s. Patronage by Thai royalty slowly ...

One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

While David Blaine burst on the scene in the late 1990s doing his closeup street magic, his bread-and-butter soon became ...

My friends and I just had the most amazing trip to central Vietnam where we stayed in Hoi An and Da Nang. The star of this area is Ba Na Hills of which its ...

The hamlet of Omar, NY, is home to several giant crows. The roadside attraction is the creation of artist Will Salisbury, who made the steel birds in his Omar studio. Salisbury spent about two ...

Gaya (Bihar) [India], March 15 (ANI): The magnificent reclining statue of Lord Buddha, located in Gaya, Bihar, serves as a captivating spot for tourists who flock to admire its grandeur. The Mahabodhi ...

8. Admiring the Giant Buddha Statue at Wat Pho As mentioned earlier, Thailand is home to a range of iconic landmarks, one of which is the Reclining Buddha Statue. The 46-meter (151-foot) tall golden ...

Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States appears unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard. It rises 30 feet high from the woods in Franklin ...

Here is what I saw in them: Why didn’t anyone tell me there was a giant golden dong at the Art Museum? I would’ve went years ago! The people taking themselves way too seriously were definitely ...