This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

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

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.