The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

The once-grand remains of this resort are slowly turning into the strange ruins of the future.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.