Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

A mecca for India's Jains.

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

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

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

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.