Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

Extravagant mosque honors modern Islam.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.