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

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

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

This eclectic sanctuary is a hodgepodge of various architectural styles, all crammed into one building.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

This standing stone has a unique backdrop thanks to some of the United Kingdom's best-rated beaches.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

Visitors can sit and study the board with this Estonian chess legend and International Grandmaster.

A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

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