One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

270 million year-old forest of stone.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.