More than 2 million Olive Ridley sea turtles are hatched from this mass nesting ground every year.

World's largest working waterwheel has been around for over 150 years.

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

Take a hidden path to the mouth of the cave to watch millions of bats swarm at sunset.

A dreamy mausoleum honors Persia's most famous poet.