A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

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

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

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

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

A solemn reminder of the infamous World War II war crime that massacred almost all the men in a small Greek town.

This nugget of paradise earned its name for obvious reasons.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.