The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.