The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

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

This fortress played a key role in the battle that would ultimately give rise to the Maratha Empire.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

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

Megapodes incubate their eggs using the heat of an active volcano on this Pacific isle.

Legend says this tiny ancient island is the lost ancestral homeland of the Aztecs.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

An oasis of shade and color amidst the bustle of the old city.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

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

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

This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.

The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.

One of the most iconic sculptures in Caracas looks like a large orange ball suspended in the air.

A sapling of the legendary tree where conquistador Hernán Cortés sat and wept after an Aztec uprising.

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

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

The middle finger of modernity.