This small, lush island has a long and bloody history.

The evolution of a simple creek cutting its way through an ochre mountain side.

A historical umbrella shop, whose owner started a craze for locally-made souvenirs.

An animatronic tribute to a legendary half-man, half-fish creature.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

A long strip of fossil-filled limestone makes up this natural bridge above a rushing stream.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

A mere dot on the map in the great north woods is the first place in America to vote in Presidential elections.

A well drilled into the side of a cliff supplies most of the water consumed on the island of El Hierro.

This permanent exhibition of commercial signs aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the city.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

A tiny museum dedicated exclusively to the tiny art that decorates matchboxes.

Red, white, and blue painted steps along with a Union Jack celebrate the outcome of Gibraltar's 1967 referendum.

The world's first cageless zoo is working to save endangered Tasmanian devils.

This enigmatic Roman tower lurks just outside Belmonte.

Inside one of Guadalajara's oldest houses, you can find puppets and foam models of the city's missing buildings.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

Built as a defensive structure, this medieval walkway road offers a unique view of the village of Brisighella.

Dozens of large, brightly-colored paintings adorn the walls of the "street art capital of Iceland."

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.