Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.