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A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Rock carving created 1,300 years ago 75 feet off the ground.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

The largest drain hole in the world.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Lunar landscape, a mud volcano and bizarre rock formations.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Dr. Farid Mattar's Monument of Peace.