Palo Alto, California
Gates of Hell Sculpture
Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.
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Palo Alto, California
Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.
Tondabayashi, Japan
A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.
García, Mexico
Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.
Bushland, Texas
The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
Rushton, England
An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Mount Dandenong, Australia
A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.
Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
Aomori, Japan
The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.
Kyonan, Japan
This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.
Meishan, China
A golden temple atop a sacred mountain, known for its giant effigy of the revered Pu Xian.
Ushiku, Japan
The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.
San Francisco, California
A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Hakone, Japan
Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.
Panhandle, Texas
The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
Amarillo, Texas
A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.
Terlingua, Texas
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
Texarkana, Texas
$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.