An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A monument to a working class martyr.

The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.