An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

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

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

The abandoned shell of what would have been the Jordanian royal family's summer palace.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

This clock is an architectural flourish that stands out as a landmark among a unique Israeli German community.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.