Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."