Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

Underground monastery and fortress.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

The world's most remote airport.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

A monument built to commemorate the billionth barrel of oil extracted from the Seria oil field in Brunei.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

The place that allegedly inspired James Hilton's depiction of Shangri-La.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

One of Bhutan's oldest temples was purportedly built to halt a giant female ogre from preventing the spread of Buddhism across Tibet.

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

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

The King is honored by an elaborate grotto on a continent he never visited.