A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

The world's most remote airport.

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A medieval house adorned with enigmatic carvings, including one of a man displaying his masculine attributes.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A monumental golden thumb rises as an iconic homage to Nouveau Réalisme, bold in scale and unapologetic in spirit.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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