Its sunny hues are believed to have inspired the town's color palette.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

A Spanish Colonial fort now houses an archeology museum.

The walls of a colonial-era fort encircle a small, tropical assortment of plant life.

Half-hidden by grassy slopes, this striking Spanish colonial fort is now a museum of underwater archaeology.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.

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

The world's largest concentrated solar power plant.