Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.