An artificial cave littered with semi-precious stones waiting to be picked up.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

A memorial to the only dog ever officially enlisted in the Royal Navy.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

A gorgeous and extensive collaboration between biologists and artists, displaying skeletons and other animal remnants in lifelike poses.

An hour south of Punta Arenas (Chile) along the Strait of Magellan, a Kcymaerxthaere plaque tells the story of Culev Larsze, cursed to live without words in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

The world's oldest model village.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.