Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

These mysterious circular formations are actually remnants of 19th century gristmills.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

One of only two towns in Israel populated by Circassians, a sect of Sunni Muslims who are also devoted to Israeli military service.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

A significant cache of prehistoric valuables is on display in an unassuming museum tucked inside a town hall.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.