Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.