The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

Located in the mountains of Nicaragua, one man has spent most of life beautifying a massive cliff by hand.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.