"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.