The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.

Templar knights fleeing persecution are said to have left this sword in stone as a landmark in 1307.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.