Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

A micronation of epic proportions.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.