This simple roadside art installation ended up sparking a folk art movement and a controversy of international proportions.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.