A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

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

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.