Akrotiri, Cyprus
Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas of the Cats
For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.
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Akrotiri, Cyprus
For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.
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."
Luster, Norway
An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.
Lubec, Maine
This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.
Campobello, New Brunswick
The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.
Welshpool, New Brunswick
A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Moscow, Maine
A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.
Georgetown, Guyana
The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.
Georgetown, Guyana
A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.
Georgetown, Guyana
Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.
Georgetown, Guyana
Though dynamited and defaced, the statue still stands outside the law courts in Georgetown, Guyana.
Georgetown, Guyana
The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.
French Guiana
An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.
Guyana
The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.