Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

A brick building in Kathmandu's Durbar Square is home to Nepal's most prominent living goddess.

This conservation area filled with colorful birds is the last community forest within the city of Kathmandu.

This Kathmandu museum, built in an Austrian modernist style, looks like a set from Star Wars.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

This elegant neoclassical garden is a peaceful oasis in the middle of the Nepalese capital.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

This often-overlooked ocean walkway was once considered an impossible fantasy.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.