Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

Sip sweet, luxuriously creamy Hong Kong-style milk tea at this cafe.

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

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

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

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

The iconic egg tart gets an upgrade with a laminated sourdough crust.

This no-frills joint has some of the most sublime Cantonese barbecue in town.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.

On a corner of the Ardmeanach peninsula on the Isle of Mull, a 50 million-year-old fossil tree hides in the coastal cliffs.

The sunlight passing through the opening of this huge cave system creates a magical effect.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Nestled atop a wind-swept crag in the Scottish Highlands is a lonely memorial to a beloved hiker.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.