Puerto Triunfo, Colombia
Hacienda Nápoles
Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.
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Puerto Triunfo, Colombia
Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.
Vista Hermosa, Colombia
An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."
Nariño, Colombia
A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.
Giverny, France
At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The room where Vincent van Gogh died.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.
Georgia
A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.
Batumi, Georgia
A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.
Stavanger, Norway
Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.
Oslo, Norway
Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.
Strand, Norway
This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.
Odda, Norway
Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."
Kyiv, Ukraine
The medieval prince founded the first library in Ukraine at Saint Sophia's Cathedral where he was interred.
Suzdal', Russia
300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.
Magelang, Indonesia
Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.
East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.
Ubud, Indonesia
Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.