Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

This 17th-century mausoleum is topped with an acoustic marvel.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

A mecca for India's Jains.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This bed and breakfast is steeped in history and offers guests a unique way to experience nature—glass igloos on a frozen lake.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.