A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

A pair of trees near a Hong Kong shrine are said to grant wishes, but only the ones they hold on to.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

A science teacher's dream.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.