Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.