This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

Known as the Hintz House, this medieval pharmacy has been an apothecary's haven for nearly 450 years.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

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

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

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

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.