A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A favorite with sightseers and locals alike, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

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

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.