1% of Greenland's entire population used to live in this single building, which is now slated for demolition.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

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

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.