One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

1800 rooms of single-family residence in Brunei.

The world's largest wooden structure.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.