Ypres, Belgium
Menin Gate Memorial
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
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Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Waddesdon, England
The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Los Angeles, California
Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.
Saint Peter's, Montserrat
A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.
Saint-Pierre, Martinique
The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."
Hilo, Hawaii
Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.
Sajama, Bolivia
A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.
Vredefort, South Africa
The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.
Hida, Japan
Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.
Melbourne, Australia
Occult books, tarot, oddities.
Macclesfield, England
One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.
Leiden, Netherlands
Science meets wall art to highlight the beauty of famous mathematical equations.
Leiden, Netherlands
The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.
Leiden, Netherlands
Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.
Bath, England
Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
Chicxulub, Mexico
The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Safford, Arizona
One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.
La Palma, Spain
This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.
Holywood, Scotland
A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.