Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

Giant wood sculpture in Kew first constructed in 1979.

Modeled after the big, ferocious Hexham Grey mosquito.

Giant lamp houses the tourism information center.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

Giant relaxing Buddha in Malaysia.

A historical convent known for taking in bad luck babies left on its doorstep is now an upscale shopping center.

The second generation of a mighty volcano rises from the sea.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

Take a cruise with no movement but plenty of style in this one-of-a-kind boat mall.

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