The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

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

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

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

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

Building this tragically pointless stone barrier cost the lives of the prisoners made to build it.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.