Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Take a cruise with no movement but plenty of style in this one-of-a-kind boat mall.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

A biblically accurate ark located beneath a Hong Kong bridge is fun for the whole Christian family.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

This nearly abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.