At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

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

Founded by French colonists in 1919, this mountain resort has been transformed into one-of-a-kind theme park.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

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

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.