The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A student driver's nightmare.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Two pillars set 10 paces apart commemorate the "last notable American duel."

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.