1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.