A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

Fulham F.C. imploded once everyone excised its giant, hated tribute to the King of Pop.

After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

A collection cataloguing one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.