After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

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

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

Of five volcanoes located in the massive Tengger caldera, this cone is the youngest and most active.

The country’s first escalator is located in department store filled with batiks and beautiful Indonesian products.

Concrete balls on wires constructed to stop train surfing in Indonesia.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

A quaint village where bomb casings from the Second Indochina War have been repurposed into mundane objects.

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.