This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This magnificent white pagoda was constructed to resemble a sacred Buddhist mountain.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

The world’s most primitive form of bungee jumping.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.