The hottest, driest, and most scenic desert on Earth.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

A distinctive former power plant turned university lecture hall looks like it could make you breakfast.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

A massive land art sculpture fills a green space once tarnished by a landfill.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The labyrinthine home of the National Archives of Estonia is an experimental blend of architecture, art, and history.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.