A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

Not only does this shop sell mokorotlo, the traditional hat of Lesotho, the building is shaped like one.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

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

In the shadow of the Sydney Opera House, Indigenous ingredients shine.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.