This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

Locals perched on icy thrones brave frigid temperatures during this bizarre winter tradition.

An annual festival full of illuminated replicas of iconic landmarks from around the world.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

This small town's local tradition is to create the world's tallest ice pillar.

A dreamy mausoleum honors Persia's most famous poet.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.