Liège, Belgium
Bueren Mountain
This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.
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Liège, Belgium
This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Skagen, Denmark
The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.
Montignac, France
Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."
Carlsbad, New Mexico
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Billund, Denmark
The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.
Averøy, Norway
A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.
Kerry, Ireland
This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.
Djenne, Mali
The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.
Shanghai, China
The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.
Kiruna, Sweden
The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.
Hartford, Connecticut
This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Mackinac County, Michigan
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
Malmö, Sweden
This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
Coober Pedy, Australia
An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.
Bronx, New York
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.