More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

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

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

A mouldering Colombian bull ring stands as a reminder of the country's complicated relationship with a brutal sport.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

This tiny tropical village was sick of anonymity so the locals made this sign, which actually changed the name of the town.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

The world's first electric battery-powered submarine.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.