This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.