Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

Colombia's first concrete structure doubles as a replica of Versaille's Petit Trianon Belvedere and a symbol for development.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

This small city park is best known for the nightly convergence of thousands of shrieking parakeets.

A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.

This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.

Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.