One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

Though it's not the largest, this one-kilometer outdoor market is reportedly the longest in Europe.

Planes, helicopters, and a shipwreck are underwater in this former limestone quarry.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

Cloistered comestibles are served with style at this French Orthodox monastery.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

Be careful not to get trampled at this lively two thousand-year-old market.

This abandoned stepwell is one of the largest, deepest, and certainly one of the creepiest in India.

Where giant ships go to die.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

After visiting hours, this picturesque waterfall is essentially turned "off" to be used for hydroelectric power.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.

One of the biggest markets in Asia, under one of the continent's largest domes.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.