More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

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

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.