This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

A beautiful viewpoint on the Garden Route overlooking a naturally-occurring outline of Africa.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.

Over 60 species of birds inhabit this colorful aviary park in South Africa.

This unassuming farm complex was once the epicenter of an underground liberation group.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

The second-highest train station in Europe.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.