The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This holy site either displays a centuries-old cross or a complete fake.

A small statue of child Jesus given by Magellan in 1521

The once-grand remains of this resort are slowly turning into the strange ruins of the future.

Marikina's record-breaking loafers.

A church made of steel.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."