The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Largest cave system in Africa.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.