The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

The ship that got left behind.

This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.

The decommissioned station is now a museum packed with antiquated hydroelectricity artifacts.

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.