A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

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

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.