Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Glasgow's memorial to the International Brigade volunteers from Great Britain who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

The 18th-century inspiration behind Harry Potter's Sorting Hat.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

This emblematic representation is said to bring the students good fortune.

Inscribed on the gate are the names of 29 figures from the University's first five centuries.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

This boat represents the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, and progress and freedom for Iceland.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Hundreds of intricately carved Armenian stone crosses can be found within this huge cemetery.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.