This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

These traffic lights celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the women's suffrage movement in Lithuania.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

This unassuming oil well changed the history of the Arabian Gulf.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

A gorgeous and extensive collaboration between biologists and artists, displaying skeletons and other animal remnants in lifelike poses.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Thought to be the only herd of feral horses in Africa and one of the most isolated populations in the world.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

Hundreds of tree trunks and Welwitschia flowers populate this living fossil haven.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.