Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Shoes and revealing shirts are not allowed inside this giant Vietnamese Christ.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.