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The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

Take a hidden path to the mouth of the cave to watch millions of bats swarm at sunset.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

Heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, this small town turns unexploded munitions into utensils.