A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

This fantastic cave remained unexplored until 1948 when three schoolboys discovered a hidden entrance.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.