More than 2 million Olive Ridley sea turtles are hatched from this mass nesting ground every year.

The world's largest bust sculpture celebrates the Hindu deity, Shiva.

Miraculous vase predicts the future at this Tibetan Buddhist site in the Himalayas.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

This tiny island protects a number of rare bird species by only allowing visitors to set foot on the beach.

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

Bohol's mysterious brown hills.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

An eclectic mix of influences rot together in harmony in this India necropolis.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.