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Towering at a height of over 30 meters, this turn-of-the-18th-century landmark is the tallest temple in Nepal.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

An enchanting rocky island of scraggly baobabs surrounded by an ancient sea and sprawling salt pans.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

Australia's only active volcanoes and highest peak are located on these remote islands thousands of miles away from the mainland.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

One of Bhutan's oldest temples was purportedly built to halt a giant female ogre from preventing the spread of Buddhism across Tibet.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

Known as the "Queen of Beach Markets," Calangute epitomizes Goa's beach flea market scene.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

The tallest statue in the world is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

This belfry is all that remains of the town that was buried by a violent volcano eruption.