The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

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

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

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

The long underground cave's curiously shaped stalagmites have inspired many legends.

The cursed island of black pebbles.

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.