Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

This ruined temple's giant Buddha statue bears the scars of the Second Indochina War.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

An 18th-century Nepali-style chorten built to subdue demons and evil spirits.

The untimely death of a dignitary's daughter led to this fort being abandoned before it was ever finished.

All that is left of an Armenian community that thrived in Dhaka 200 years ago.

This colorful palace is an oasis of calm amid the hustle and bustle of the Buriganga riverfront.

This underground power plant looks more like a super-villian's lair than a public work.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

The ruins of an abandoned 17th-century fort that was almost completely destroyed by a fire.

The nation’s first institution dedicated to the conservation of Bhutanese textiles.

A tiny mosque decorated with mosaics using an early form of recycling.

This historic textile city was abandoned after being ravaged by fire.

This colorful overpass is one of Bhutan's longest suspension bridges.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

A Buddhist shrine in a cave protected by macaques next to dark passages lined with creepy paintings.

This 17th-century structure is a beautiful testimony to traditional Persian architecture

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.