A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Home to some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found.

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

A growing popular hipster market with over 100 local specialties and live music.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

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

A massive concentration of algae is responsible for this lake's pink hue.

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

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

Yo, Adrian!

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

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

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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