A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

Once a sanctuary for Honolulu’s queer community, this legendary landmark is in the heart of Waikiki.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

After decades of neglect in a municipal storage unit this medieval jewel was given a new life in the late 1950s.

How a replica of a legendary Florentine fountain became a tireless fundraiser in the Southern Hemisphere.

This massive circular sculpture may not be a portal to other worlds, but it does inspire the mind to imagine them.

A small waterfall hides in a green gorge on the walk to Skaftafell’s famous basalt-framed cascade.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

This striking gate in Carabanchel is a modern expression of Madrid's centuries-old connection to bears, the animal that has symbolized the city for generations

The Kansas City Barbecue restaurant also contains the original piano that was a central part of the famous "Great Balls of Fire" scene.

This house made famous by the 1980s movie is now a restaurant filled with Top Gun memorabilia

A statue of Granada's self-proclaimed "King of the Gypsies"

Tombs containing the remains of some of the first and most important professors of medieval Bologna

One of the most important pieces in the Madrid History Museum and one of the oldest historical models of a city in Europe

This neighborhood was built in the golden age of Art-Decó, and its buildings are essential to understanding this style

Two alleyways in Suzhou Old Town offer a slice of life in Shanghai's French Concession, and served as a private home-away-from-home for one of 1920s Shanghai’s most infamous gangsters

The first venue constructed as a music venue in Iceland

A medieval palace holding a millennium of the Crown of Aragon's records

Listen to the sounds of the Earth moving along the Rose Canyon Fault.

The first Icelander to hold the position of governor.

A historic office and commercial building located in the heart of downtown San Francisco.

The first and oldest mosque in Japan.