These otherworldly formations were shaped over millions of years by the forces of nature.

There is one corporation registered for every three square feet of space in this inconspicuous office building.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

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

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.