An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

At this unique temple in Darjeeling, Hindu and Buddhist practices co-exist harmoniously.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Dive into an undersea optical illusion off the coast of Mauritius.

This monument sits at the foot of a mountain from which legend says enslaved people jumped to their deaths.

An extraordinary mix of Phoenician, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine ruins beautifully set overlooking the Mediterranean.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

This massive monument towers over the city as a constant reminder of the lives lost during Algeria's hard-won war for independence.

This former cathedral is now a bustling library packed with students and pigeons.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

A set of ancient rock engravings that date back to the Neolithic period.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

This pond in Victoria Park is rumored to be bottomless, one of several legends that surround it.