The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.