The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

Man-made waterfall is the tallest in Mainland China.

The tiny statues form China's only known terracotta army from the Han dynasty.

A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

This short pedestrian span is also known as the "Fairy Walking Bridge" because it looks almost magical.

This incredible Chinese theme park may be the largest bootleg in history.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

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

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."