A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

This hidden Sufi cemetery is a spiritual monument for India's third gender community.

One-room museum dedicated to India's most enigmatic mathematician.

The only Chinese temple in Mumbai.

The potters' quarter is packed with artists sculpting clay gods with mud from the sacred Ganges river.

Legend has it a commoner volunteered to be buried alive in the foundation so that the great fortress could be built.

The mysterious empty cupola behind the monumental arch points to an ancient prophecy of Delhi.

A small town in Rajasthan has been dubbed the "City of Stepwells," and Raniji ki Baori is the queen.

Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.

This 11th-century temple gave rise to the word "juggernaut," as well as some mysteries that defy scientific explanation.

A towering work of stone and philosophy that was constructed using ancient Hindu science.

This magical place built as an astronomical center starred as a James Bond villain's lair.

This small and unknown museum recounts the life of Mirabai, a remarkable mystic saint of the 16th century.

There are millions of temples in India, but only one prominent temple dedicated to the Hindu creator god.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

A collection of crumbling mansions stand as a reminder of a more prosperous time in this Indian village.

Megalithic monuments resembling magic mushrooms.

This abandoned stepwell is one of the largest, deepest, and certainly one of the creepiest in India.

This Gothic-style church is reputedly built atop the remains of one of Jesus's apostles.

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