This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

An epic sculpture depicting a wagon and straining oxen.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a 90 year old passion play.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.