The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.