This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

Réunion Island's highest point is a two-million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.

France's last leper colony is now a historic shopping center

A museum dedicated to the history of sugar cultivation on Réunion island.

In the shadow of the Sydney Opera House, Indigenous ingredients shine.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Oslo's historic toboggan run has been letting thrill seekers slide from train stop to train stop for over a century.

This floating sculpture of ice is a poignant reminder of nature's power.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

Once silenced for being off-key, this bell has found a new voice as an interactive public artwork.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.