Beam Me Up, Buddha!

In this rendering provided by Los Angeles artist Hiro Yamagata, lasers project the images of Buddhas across the Bamiyan Valley's soaring cliffs, located 80 miles west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Yamagata hopes his upcoming exhibition project, entitled 'Afghanistan Bamiyan Buddha,' will commemorate the original fifth-century Buddhas destroyed by Taliban militants by projecting multicolored laser images onto the clay cliffsides where the figures once stood. (AP Photo/Hiro Yamagata)