The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.