Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Thousands of colorful pirogues showcase ingenious craftsmanship at the largest fishermen port in Nouakchott.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.