The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

A micronation of epic proportions.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

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

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.