Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Every Easter, a small Sicilian town builds a stunning cathedral out of bread.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

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

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.