Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Water-powered gadgets whirr to life in this quirky eco park.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A miniatures park with a model of Wolf's Lair as it looked during World War II.

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.