While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.