A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

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

A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

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

The world's most remote airport.

The ship responsible for Antarctica’s largest oil spill still lies just below the surface.

The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Quite possibly the most isolated bus stop on Earth.

This uniquely shaped slab of volcanic rock has been used by generations of Antarctic explorers.

This pier made of ice and constructed over the Antarctic winter is used when the resupply cargo ships arrive in summer.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

On a desolate hill overlooking McMurdo Station, a statue of the Virgin Mary stands inside a curved iron frame.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

A garden in the middle of the most inhospitable continent.

A symbolic cemetery in a suburban square marks the birthplace of Poland's WWII resistance movement.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.