This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

The coldest city in the world.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.