Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

A small United Arab Emirates territory within an Omani enclave within the United Arab Emirates.

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

This is one of the very few intact windmills built by the Knights of St. John in the island nation of Malta.

This windmill has been grinding pigments for traditional paints for more than 200 years.

A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

This sculptural representation of an Andersen fairy tale had to be pushed away for being too grim.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.