Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

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

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

This Argentinian hedge maze is an intricate tribute to a famous surrealist author.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.