Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Home to around 40 different species, this forest was also the setting for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.