A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A Korean village where times stands still.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.