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

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

The middle finger of modernity.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

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

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.