Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.

Though dynamited and defaced, the statue still stands outside the law courts in Georgetown, Guyana.

Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.

The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics.

Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

Wander among the ghostly ruins of an island where civilization flourished for thousands of years.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

This group of small islands on Lake Nicaragua formed after an eruption of the Mombacho volcano.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.