This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.