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Two ancient Buddhist temples crown this dramatic rocky pinnacle.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

These traffic lights celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the women's suffrage movement in Lithuania.

The Slovenian architect designed many landmarks in the capital city, including his own dream house.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This modest plaza in Moneygall, Ireland has cashed in on its distant connection to the U.S. president.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.