A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Berlin's old airport.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.