This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

A garden of flying flowers.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

This artistic fountain display pays homage to this area's theatrical history.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.