Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.