A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.

An elegant garden commemorating the 1841 visit from apostle and missionary, Orson Hyde.

A natural swimming hole that was once a ceremonial center for Mayan priests.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This magnificent Art Deco church is a reflection of Lithuania’s turbulent history.

This colorful and fiery mural depicts the Irish folk story of the beloved hero Cuchulain.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.

Inside this church, a monument honors the first burial site of the famed philosopher.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

A hotel masquerading as a medieval castle overlooks a Mexican city.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

This under-visited temple is nestled within one of Shanghai's traditional shikumen-style residential blocks.

The final resting place of one of the most iconic musicians of the '80s.