Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.