A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

The oldest teak bridge in the world is made from the remains of a royal palace.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

This crocodile-infested East Timor reservoir is also home to a spectacular half-sunken forest.

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

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

The other side is actually green.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.