The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

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

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

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

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.