Bjarnarhöfn, Iceland
Bjarnarhöfn Shark Museum
At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.
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Bjarnarhöfn, Iceland
At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.
Utsunomiya, Japan
At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.
Leiden, Netherlands
An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.
Leiden, Netherlands
Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.
Leiden, Netherlands
Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.
Glasgow, Scotland
A leafy, peaceful oasis nestled in the heart of Glasgow's busy south side.
Zhangye Shi, China
Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.
Narlai, India
Designed to serve primarily the Maharaja, this is an interesting variation on the traditional stepped well.
Alliat, France
Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.
Callanish, Scotland
The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.
Catcliffe, England
The oldest surviving glass furnace cone in Western Europe.
Eganville, Ontario
One of Mother Nature’s geological gems, home to many prehistoric fossils.
Wilkieston, Scotland
Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.
Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands
The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.
Walarano, Vanuatu
Nestled in the jungles of Vanuatu are the remains of what was once a cannibal oven.
Samoa
An unmarked, overgrown path through dense vegetation leads to the largest ancient structure in Polynesia.
Apia, Samoa
A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Inarajan, Guam
Located on Guam's south shore, this small cave is named for an ancient and powerful Chamorro Chief.
Ra, Fiji
Final resting place of the most prolific Fijian cannibal of all time.
Sunderland, England
A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.
Esch-sur-Sûre, Luxembourg
Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.
Raičevići, Montenegro
A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.