This weekly market in the remote oasis city of Hotan still has the atmosphere of the old Silk Road.

The world's largest natural arch was forgotten for over 50 years after its discovery.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

This Tibetan and Naxi village's Honey Rose wine bears the mark of 19th-century French missionaries.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A tiny museum dedicated exclusively to the tiny art that decorates matchboxes.

An unusual double-stelae obelisk with ancient and mysterious origins.

This small shrine is dedicated to the designer of the first Russian fighter jet and his brother, who became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

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

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.