An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

Once the main gateway to Tokyo, sneaking through this checkpoint was a capital offense in feudal times.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

This magnificent church allows travelers along one of Germany's busiest roadways a chance to rest and reflect.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.