One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

In the summer, the area around this sculpture transforms into a vibrant concert venue.

Experience the pivotal Civil War battle at this interactive museum.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

Catch a scenic view of Warsaw's Old Town from the top of a centuries-old dumping ground.

The last king of Poland was interred in this church nearly 200 years after his death.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

A menacing statue of this mythical creature can be seen at the legendary site of the monster's lair.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

This postmodern apartment block was designed to be a vertical neighborhood.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.