Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

The long underground cave's curiously shaped stalagmites have inspired many legends.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

Dedicated to improving the plight of the rare scaly anteater.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

Unique geological formations in China, featuring some suggestive shapes.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.