A student driver's nightmare.

The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.

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

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

A science fiction-inspired apartment building designed by a famous Spanish architect.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

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

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

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

This commanding mausoleum holds the remains of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

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.

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

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

This old village lock-up is known as the "round house," but it is actually octagonal.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.