On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Bold contestants slide in a rice paddy behind two charging bulls.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.