Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

The hottest place on the planet.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Temple of a million beers.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.