What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This magnificent Crimean estate was once a playground of the Russian elite.

One of the windiest peaks in Crimea is home to an incredible set of cable bridges.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

This weekly market in the remote oasis city of Hotan still has the atmosphere of the old Silk Road.

This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.

This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.