Eritrea's futuristic gas station is a nod to Italy's fascist history.

Is this amazing tableau depicting Gilgamesh and Enki 4,000 years old?

This garden boasts a magnificent collection of orchids and a spectacular view of the surrounding valley.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Located alongside the famous Salamanca Market and in sight of Parliament House, this large and elaborate monument is hard to miss, split into two sections and standing some 14 meters tall.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

Three women and a 10-year-old boy are immortalized in this sculpture memorializing the 13,000 women and children convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) between 1803 and 1853.

Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.

The world's tallest shot tower—maybe.

For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.