This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

This small museum is home to cannons cast by Paul Revere and the last remaining uniform of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

In the Bahamas sits a lighthouse that is among the last of its kind.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.