Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

This research hub in the Amazon Rainforest is perched amid one of the world's most biologically diverse landscapes.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Cavemen, elephants, and eagles greet passengers driving through the town's main intersection.

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

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

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.