This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.