It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.