To get to or from this Canadian ghost town, you'll need to cross 11 single-lane bridges.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

The last surviving submarine from a strange chapter of Finnish history.

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

At this concrete bunker on the Trondheim fjord, secrets lie above and below the water's surface.

A museum dedicated to Norwegian music, old and new alike.

A small Oslo museum dedicated to failed products, bad ideas, overhyped inventions, and the strange lessons hidden inside them.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

The name for this waterfall was derived from the Aboriginal word used to describe a rainforest vine.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.