The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

The oldest teak bridge in the world is made from the remains of a royal palace.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'