A Palestinian man reacts after his house was flooded by rain water in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 9, 2015. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

A woman watches the rain from inside a stranded vehicle on a flooded street in Mianyang, Sichuan, China on July 11, 2018. (Photo by China News Service via Reuters)

Members of a Chinese opera take a selfie before a performance at a shopping mall ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Bangkok, Thailand, February 4, 2016. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

Brendan Fitzpatrick is a commercial photographer specialising in advertising and lifestyle photography. He also creates unique X-ray images marketed under the banner Invisible Light. Brendan is based in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendan Fitzpatrick)

A volunteer approaches a male toad to pick him up from a road near Berlin on March 18, 2012 in Gueterfelde, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

A girl has her helmet adjusted on the top of a tank during the Children's Day celebration at a military facility in Bangkok, Thailand January 9, 2016. Army barracks opened their doors to children to interact with their weapons and vehicles as part of the celebration. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)

With the Wat Samphran Temple, what you see is what you get: while a smattering of awed visitors across the web have expressed admiration for this impressive work of architecture, details such as when it was built, who designed it, or why this 17-story tower is in the clutches of a massive, beautiful dragon are nowhere to be found.