Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

An unconventional and naturalistic sculpture depicting the artist marking his territory on an exterior faculty wall.

This theme park is not in Tokyo, not especially German, and certainly not a village.

A bizarre statue of a Buddhist goddess made from 20,000 insects.

Rice balls symbolize fate and relationship at this adorable shrine, which was once dedicated to the Buddhist Devil.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

The largest camel market in West Africa

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

Take the most scenic fjord landscape in Norway and add dramatic red cliffs, warm clear water, and playful dolphins.

It's believed human settlements from the Palaeolithic Age were established not far from this canyon.

One of the largest mud-brick structures in the world.

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

An overgrown monument remembers 60 years of French control in New Caledonia.

The last remnant of Kuala Lumpur’s old prison complex now stands on the edge of a Japanese shopping mall.

A centuries-old Hindu cave temple is tucked away in a quiet suburb.

In the palace with a thousand doors, not all of them are guaranteed to lead you somewhere new.

The memorial honors the lives of rhinoceroses killed by poachers.

Beautiful and terrifying masks displayed in the island’s only mask library.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.