The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The magic's in the hole!

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.