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This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

A tribute to the artist and activist who created the rainbow pride flag.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Panaji’s oldest surviving building, which was once a palace and viceroy residence, now houses the Goa State Museum.

Step into the world of one of Turkey's most popular television series for a virtual trip through Ottoman Empire history.

Malta’s oldest sea water distillation building is now an architectural anomaly on the Sliema waterfront.

The Ayo Rock Formations stand out on the island of Aruba as a unique arrangement of giant boulders with interesting crawl spaces to explore.

A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.

These structures serve as a memorial to one of Boston’s most ambitious and controversial urban redevelopment projects.

These giant volcanic rocks towering above the Angolan savannah once served as a natural fortification.

Once built to inspire young Soviet minds through astronomy, this dome now stands as a quiet relic of a vanished era.