The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Cavemen, elephants, and eagles greet passengers driving through the town's main intersection.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

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