Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The shortest in the world, this landing strip stretches a mere 1,312 feet before steep cliffs on either end plunge into the Caribbean.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

Where giant ships go to die.

This park was designated by UNESCO as an Endangered World Heritage site.

Over 4,700 miles of trees being planted to hold back the desert.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.