Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

A People's Devotion to a Higher Power is no more evident than in the structures they

build to honor it.

From small congregations and modest churches to vast networks of bishops and clergy that

worship and great cathedrals, every religious group has a place where they can commune with

their chosen God.

The Hindu-turned Buddhist temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia sits on 402 acres.

It remains to this day as the largest religious structure in the world.

Primemanan, a Hindu temple compound in Indonesia, is comprised of 240 individual temples and

dates back to the 8th century.

But few religious monuments are as unique as Kailasa temple in India.

Construction of the Hindu structure was started during the 8th century, and it resides in Maharashtra,

a region in Western India, and took its name from the Himalayan home of the God Shiva.

The base of the temple features enormous elephants chiseled out of rock that seem to hold

the whole thing up.

When visitors step through the two-story entrance into the central courtyard, they can see a stone

carving of Nandi, the sacred bull of Shiva.

In fact, Shiva is depicted throughout the temple as 23-foot tall statues and with an

expertly carved relief panels, and there are other reliefs and panels as well, two of

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