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

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

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

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This combination shop and museum is filled with curious items and artifacts.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."