An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

A 19th-century horse lover's bequest led to the construction of this unique fountain in Chicago.

Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

An exquisite example of Uyghur Islamic architecture.