A mesmerizing wonderland of salt-encrusted tree branches and pencil roots.

Home of the infamous Rug Man of Doha.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

Billionaire's mark on the earth.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

A staggering number of rock carvings in an abandoned quarry.

This unique museum doesn't shy away from highlighting Qatar's role in the history of slavery.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

The remains of the worst military aviation accident in Canada's history.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

An abandoned fishing village in pre-oil Qatar.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.