The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

One of Western Africa's oldest mosques, this Timbuktu icon has stood for nearly 700 years.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

A naturally occurring tunnel in this Nordic mountain makes it look like it's been shot.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

An impressive museum dedicated to the resource that made the Scandinavian country rich.

A former factory now pays tribute to a local industry fueled by sardines.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

On one of the world's most active volcanoes, a pebble-filled crater changes color with the wind.

The unique building practices of the Batammariba reflect the community's deep reverence for and connection to the earth.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

A jazz band formed by African water animals in the heart of Flemish Brabant.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This statue of a studious young woman stands at the site of Leuven's first college to accept female students.

A replica of a 17th-century map of the stars stands in the courtyard of a Belgian university.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

A tiny metropolis resides inside this student housing complex.