Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

These small, triangular, colorful houses are a staple of Madeira Island.

Established hundreds of years ago, Gandan remains the premier Buddhist monastery in Ulaanbaatar.

The monastery survived the Communist revolution in Mongolia as a religious museum.

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Amsterdam's narrowest house facade is a monument to 17th-century tax evasion.

A rare tour of an aristocrat's private home reveals valuable 17th-century paintings from artists like Rembrandt.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.