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Is this Middle Earth or Westeros! Neither! It's Spain! It took 34 years from 1759 to 1793 to build the more than 200 year old Puente Nuevo bridge… connecting together the Andalusian city of Ronda in Spain across the Guadalevín River at the height of almost 100 meters. For whatever reason, a chamber was also built in the middle of the bridge and said to have been used by both sides of the city as a prison and torture chamber during the civil war in the 1930s…and is open to visitors today.

Hey... what's a horse doing there? well... not sure either... but it looks rather cute on top of the 21-meter tall steel chair. The whole installation is called "The Yearling" by renowned artist Donald Lipski permanently on display outside the Denver Public Library.

Whoa! If you're like me, you love spotting rad honeycomb architecture in the wild. The very cool-looking Metropol Parasol at the La Encarnacion Square in Seville Spain is pretty massive, 150 by 70 meters large! It's believed to be the world's largest wooden structure, completed in 2011. Cool huh?

I know what you're thinking, and no. This isn't one of the great pyramids of Giza. Shocking, right? It's actually found right here in 'Murica! There are in fact two pretty cool hand-built pyramids, originally opened as new age shops. But today it's a hardware, feed and supply store! Both pyramids are pretty easy to spot when you drive up to the Grand Canyon's south rim in Valle Arizona. Definitely worth the trip if you need some socket wrenches.

You might not know this, but giants used to rule the earth, like back in the day. For real. I mean, how else can you explain these massive swords! Actually, the Sverd i fjell (Swords in Rock) is a monument made up of 3 bronze swords about 10 meters high jabbed into solid rock in Madla, Norway. It was built in 1983 to commemorate the "Battle of Hafrsfjord", a true medieval age battle that happened more than a millennia ago in the year 872.

Are you a slave to the cult of carbonated high-fructose refreshment? Then prepare to worship at the altar of the Pops Soda Ranch! Located just off Route 66, in Arcadia Oklahoma, they offer over 700 sodas, sparkling waters, and shakes...available on demand. Zuberfizz Key Lime Soda anyone?

Welcome to the oldest-operating McDonald's in the entire world! This particular Mcdonald’s in Downey, California was built in 1953 and was the first McD's to feature the now famous “Golden Arches” design. It was also home to the first ever Mcdonald’s mascot, “Speedee”. It's been standing at this exact spot unchanged for well over 60 years, and it's one of the few locations with a gift shop and museum on site. “I’m Lovin’ It”!

Did you know, Mulder was right? Aliens are among us...but they mostly hang out along the weirdest and loneliest road in America. The 98-mile stretch of State Route 375, is known as the Extraterrestrial Highway in Nevada. Tons of strange and otherworldly stuff can be found here, like the Alien Research Center with its huge metal alien guardian (which is actually a gift shop), the quirky Little A’Le’Inn in Rachel, and of course the infamous and highly secretive Area 51. Any road trip along the Extraterrestrial Highway isn't complete without trying the E.T. Jerky! But make sure to gas up before entering the twilight zone, as there’s not going be another gas station until you find your way out.

Once dubbed as one of the "World's Greatest Road" by Top Gear, the Stelvio Pass in northern Italy has 48 hair-raising hairpin curves, at 2,700 meters above sea level, making it the second highest road in the Alps...and definitely one of the most exciting.

It's called the "House on Fire." Left behind by the mysterious Anasazi peoples, these ruins in Cedar Mesa Utah are part of the ancient and iconic cliff houses. There are lots of other cliff houses scattered around the area too, if you don't mind the 1.5 mile hike.

I swear I've had nightmares about walking over a bridge like this... The Ladner Creek Trestle bridge is an abandoned train track that used to be part of the old Kettle Valley Railway, near Hope in British Columbia, Canada. It’s rusty, creaky and a bit unstable with a collapsed tunnel on one end...and there goes my anxiety...

What the what?! This isn't some pretty art installation, these are salt ponds built by the ancient Incas to produce salt high up in the mountains called Salineras de Maras in the Cuzco Region of Peru. But how, you ask? Well, a natural spring has been pumping out saltwater in the area for centuries. These ponds are part of an amazing elaborate system built around it to store and slowly evaporate the water, leaving behind the ever precious salt! And what's even more interesting is that it's still in use today.

Nope, this isn't the set from the most recent Alien movie (which though it had its faults, was still really fun). This, is Giants Causeway, on the north coast of Northern Ireland. This rad and mysterious natural wonder is a Unesco World Heritage site, and it's composed of over 40,000 mostly hexagonal basalt columns, interlocked together like Lego...almost as if somebody carefully laid them out.

That's not a road, that's a roller coaster! Should you ever venture out to Kangaroo Island, just off Adelaide's coast, you'll find yourself in roadtripping heaven. There are loads of these types of crooked roads to explore. Here you'll find seals, koalas, pelicans and, of course, Kangaroos!

This is the Caño Cristales (Crystal Channel), one of the world's most colorful rivers! Located in La Macarena, Meta in Colombia, blooms like a liquid rainbow during the wet season, which runs from the end of July to November every year, turning it into one of the most beautiful river in the world...

Wait! Is there a new Game of Thrones Kingdom in America? I wish. This massive desert dragon is actually a part of the Galleta Meadows Sculptures in Anza Borrego. Here you'll find a couple miles of open desert infested with over 130 cool “in motion" metal art pieces… including wild horses, dinosaurs, elephants, sabertooth tigers, and even a 1946 Jeep in action. They're pretty easy to spot along S-22 in Borrego Springs California.

Around the world bus stops comes in all shapes and sizes…and, let's be real, most are pretty boring and dull. But the town of Konagai in Nagasaki Prefecture Japan has come up with something juicy, colorful and well pretty unique to draw tourists to their town. Built for the 1990 Travel Expo, this strawberry-shaped bus stop is absolutely adorable! They actually built 14 of these fruit-shaped bus stops all over town and they're still in use today.

Did I just road trip and wake up in sci-fi heaven? I wish. But seriously, you've probably seen the Trona Pinnacles if you’re a fan of Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, or Battlestar Galactica, among dozens of other sci-fi movies or tv shows. Located about 1,800 feet above sea level in Trona, California. The pinnacles are natural tufa spires (made of calcium carbonate deposits), and more than 500 of them are scattered around the dry Searles Lake basin, surrounded by miles of flat, dried mud. As Captain Kirk said: “Let’s see what’s out there.”

Well, this is...interesting. You don't normally see these kinds of weird angles and curves on a building, but I kinda dig it! The Ray and Maria Stata Building or “The Stata” at MIT, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, looks pretty rad, if a tad strange and disorienting, like something out of a David Lynch movie. It almost looks like everything was improvised and just tossed up at the last moment...but hey I guess that's the whole point!

Whoaaa...is this part of some ancient civilization? Or maybe something left by aliens? Nah, it's not quite as dramatic. This very cool gigantic HAND is the La Mano Del Desierto, built by Chilean sculpture Mario Irarrazabal in 1992 in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Not sure what it stands for but I'd really love to give it a high five...