The remains of an ancient city-state along the Silk Road.

This collection of several museums includes one of the oldest structures in Iceland.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

This quiet island in the middle of a bustling city is actually a volcano dotted with Māori ruins.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

A poignant memorial to remember the Australian nurses who lost their lives during the Second World War.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

Visible from both land and sea.

This Western Australian mint was established during the height of the Australian gold rush.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

A bust of the entertainer and politician sits in an alcove at the Palm Springs Airport.

Rubbing the buttons along this statue's coat is considered good luck.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

Dedicated to the writer who immortalized the use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance of those who died in wars.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.