1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.