Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

Resonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric times.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.

Marked by the hand of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

An unmarked, overgrown path through dense vegetation leads to the largest ancient structure in Polynesia.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.