This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

The memorial gravesite of the young composer of China's national anthem.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

This statue of an eagle taking flight welcomes visitors to Langkawi.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

Only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

This beautiful, all-in-one museum, private residence, and bed and breakfast houses a rich collection of African art.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

One of the most extreme deserts in the world, these snow-free valleys harbor life, despite the hostile environment.

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

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.