Spitfire airplanes with butterfly wings hover over Prague’s skyline.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

This impressive rupestrian engraving dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic period.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."

The world’s largest museum dedicated to mining, complete with an underground show cave.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

A tragic legacy of the attempt to beautify Skopje and line the pockets of corrupt politicians

One of the world’s largest suspended aquariums, located in Dubai Mall.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

This likeness of the famous revolutionary is entirely made of recycled scraps of metal.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.