A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.