Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Tiny pyrophyllite spheres from 3 billion years ago.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

Sitting right on the border between East and West Jerusalem this modern art museum is in itself a symbol of Israel's hoped-for unity.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.

The pyramid and dome deep inside the Dzūkija forest are believed to channel divine energy.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

Back in the tiny USSR.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.