A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

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

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.