Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

New York City's first Modernist house.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

An awe-inspiring giant blue whale jaw bone stands in the center of this Dutch island.

A medieval church built up to defend its village.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

Mesoamerican monoliths and zoomorphic stones covered in royal visages, ancient mythology, and grand celestial events.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.