Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Nova reconstruction of the bridge that baffled engineers for years.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

Genitals, claws, and faces are served at this questionable Beijing eatery.

Comprised of thousands of cave temple carvings this cornucopia of ancient Chinese stone art is unrivaled anywhere in the world.

This massive neon wheel is the only one of its kind to be built over a bridge.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

Described as "the world's most blinging pool."

Massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.