Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

This Roman amphitheatre was also the location of the first gladiator school.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

The "Mother Temple of the Pacific Islands" stands at the center of 20 acres of lush, tropical prayer gardens.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.