Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

A glimpse into the festive and private lives of medieval Europe.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.