A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

This massive chalk hill carving is one of England's most beloved giant horse geoglyphs.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.