Kyoto, Japan
Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple
Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.
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Kyoto, Japan
Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Oistins, Barbados
A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.
Tamri, Morocco
Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.
Demre, Turkey
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
Hapcheon, South Korea
Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.
New York, New York
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
Burra, Australia
A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.
Takaka, New Zealand
Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.
Adare, Ireland
An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.
Coleraine, Northern Ireland
This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.
Tarrenz, Austria
Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.
Lerwick, Scotland
During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
One extremely determined man's homemade universe.
Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil
After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Peninsula, Ohio
The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.
Bellvei, Spain
Hidden well off the beaten path in Catalonia is this crumbling medieval castle that is slowly being covered in graffiti.
Hegra, Saudi Arabia
An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Delices, Dominica
This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.
Whistler, British Columbia
The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.