Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

A Mayan village preserved for centuries in volcanic ash.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This odd little home was built right into an African rock face.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

Stone Age solar temple is aligned with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Ancient mysterious ruts carved in the bedrock.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

The second largest reclining Buddha in the world got "lost" for over 120 years.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.