The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

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

This ancient Roman town was revered for the healing waters of its sacred spring.

A former salt mine is now a cool picnic spot for families and asthmatics.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.