A pair of trees near a Hong Kong shrine are said to grant wishes, but only the ones they hold on to.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

Dating back to 1812, this is the oldest racecourse in the Southern Hemisphere.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

A desert that evokes the surreal.