This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

This park in Nagarkot boasts one of the best views in all of Nepal.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.