Built in 1981 in collaboration with Andy Warhol, this giant piece of pop art stands on the campus of Colorado State University.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.