Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

A beautiful display of nearly 50 bells crafted with a unique design and distinct sound.

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.