This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

The hottest, driest, and most scenic desert on Earth.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.