Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Landbridge created by the South Korean version of Moses.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

A Korean village where times stands still.

Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

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

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.