On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

A natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

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

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

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

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."