This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

A small town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

This mysterious Sardinian festival sees a horde of blank-faced equestrians compete for tin stars.

One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.