This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

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

The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

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.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

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

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.