Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

A former pyramid-shaped library with colorful murals lies just across the bay from Old San Juan.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.