This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.

The rubbery beast is sculpted from recycled materials.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.