These medieval carvings bear scars left by Parliamentarian troops during the English Civil War.

This controversial memorial to the Titanic's captain stands in a peculiar place.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Hang with reindeer at this 400-year-old Sámi market.

The world's first purpose-built indoor shopping mall opened in Sweden in 1955.

Explore the frozen river and take a walk to a nearby island on some of the longest ice roads in Sweden.

The oldest natural aquarium in the United Kingdom.

The ruins of a 12th-century seaside castle on the southwest coast of Scotland.

Dating back to the 500s, these stones include some of the oldest Christian memorials in Scotland.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.

This 20-foot mountain is made up of some 15,000 mannequins—if you visit, you can even take a piece home with you.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.