This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.