Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

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

The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.