It is believed that this Buddhist temple stands right on the gateway to the underworld.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

A collection of heirloom roses tucked in a spectacularly beautiful botanical garden on Lake Atitlan.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.