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Established hundreds of years ago, Gandan remains the premier Buddhist monastery in Ulaanbaatar.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

A monument to peace, built by one man over the course of 25 years.

Germany's longest suspension rope bridge.

The ruins of a military fortification sit atop this mountain.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

Taiwan’s iconic dish is in peak form here.

This Khmer temple is named after a young woman who sacrificed herself to protect the city from a disastrous deluge.

Take the most scenic fjord landscape in Norway and add dramatic red cliffs, warm clear water, and playful dolphins.

This hauntingly beautiful stretch of Florida coastline is covered in sun-bleached trees.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

Natural hot springs hidden in the rainforest are only accessible by boat.

Rocky cove with large smashing waves tied to an important Samoan cultural story.

This may be the world's only drive-through windmill.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

After local authorities changed the design, the building's architect, Le Corbusier, wanted nothing to do with it.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

Where visitors can play more than 150 retro arcade games.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A beautiful gorge filled with streams and waterfalls.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.