This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

An underground city of salt.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

Marvel of green building techniques that sings with the wind.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Giant money stones of Yap.