This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

This tiny tropical village was sick of anonymity so the locals made this sign, which actually changed the name of the town.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

This former Indiana quarry has been transformed into a park and SCUBA site where divers can explore the drowned mining equipment.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.