Greeks and Romans took a very practical approach to the supernatural — gods could be haggled with, the entrance to the underworld was a grisly tourist attraction, and your neighborhood witch could be put to work.

Originally constructed as early as the 12th century, the German Krämerbrücke (Merchant's Bridge) is flanked on either side by tall buildings that are still inhabited today making it the longest inhabited bridge in the world.

You never want to think that the ground could just suddenly gape open beneath you and swallow your neighborhood whole, yet that's been a a disastrous trend in Guatemala City.

Explore the collection of master holographer Jason Sapan, guided by the man himself, before descending into his subterranean laser laboratory for a very special demonstration and a chance to actually observe laser physics in action.

Four behemoths vie for the title, but nobody has officially measured them all. Until now.

Given unique properties of this specific kind of crystal, there's really no limit to their size, and given enough time they'll grow even more massive.

Farm Cultural Park is a remarkable urban rejuvenation project in a tiny town in Sicily called Favara, 20 minutes drive from the Valley of Temples. The project started out as a single art gallery four years ago and has since evolved into…

Known as the "milky sea," it has long been a subject of folklore within the sailing world. It even showed up in "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"…

Did you know that Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined? How about the fact that Libya is composed of...

It takes a special man to see a surplus of conch shells along the beach and think, "I could build an island AND a bar out of those!"

Italian artist Giuliano Mauri was known for creating "natural architecture" by blending organic materials such as branches into large-scale outdoor works of environmental art that were, because of the nature of the pieces he worked with, temporary…

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For scientists and adventure seekers alike, the Bahamas' blue holes represent a sort of El Dorado, offering a wealth of hidden secrets that have barely been seen or examined to this point.

The celebrated Queens' College Moon Dial, often erroneously attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, was painted on an exterior wall at Cambridge University in 1733, where even experts regard it as more of an “exercise in mental arithmetic…

The visionary Marquis Ferdinando Ximenes Panciatichi of Aragon saw that no two rooms were alike, each dazzling in its own unique way. Standouts include Room of the Lilies, the Room of the Lovers, the Room of the Stalactites, the Room of the Mirrors…

Smack-dab in the middle of Canada is a strangely specific landmark…

After finding a handful of bison to mount, believed to be among the last wild bison in the country at that time, Hornaday convinced his Smithsonian colleagues to allow him to start a live collection.

In order to end the "Great Stink" of 1858, London needed a major upgrade to their sewer system so the Crossness Pumping Station was built to more efficiently deal with the waste of the populace, and they added surprisingly lovely ironwork to boot.

The largest lake in the Middle East and one of the biggest saltwater lakes in the world, Lake Urmia at its peak was a popular draw for vacationers eager to float in its salty water—known for its healing properties—and sunbathe among the flocks of flamingos, pelicans, and yellow deer that made a home at the lake and its hundred-or-so islands.

The legends surrounding the origins of the haunting tell of abused maids and even of babies buried in the backyard although it is now also said that the old vicars themselves haunt the house.

Nestled behind a cozy Riverside, California colony is the famed Graffiti Waterfall, a semi-secret natural feature that has been adorned with years of what can't really be called "street" art.

From the religious cat cult of ancient Egypt, to the booming popularity of modern Japanese cat cafes, it’s clear that the human fascination with cats is a far from new concept. With all the fuss made over felines, it hardly comes as a surprise that…

The sandstone sculpture stands at the center of the Brooklyn Museum's ongoing "Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas" exhibition, which focuses on life's transitions through its Art of Americas collection. The Huastec "Life-Death Figure" is joined in a gallery on death by

More often than not, the wild lands are home to warthogs and alligators, but on this day, Jackie Monck and her kids are looking for the swamp ponies.

Dan Lewis on a gambling institution as elusive as it is downmarket. It's all to do with licensing, naturally.

Termessos sits at the top of a mountain near the southern Turkish coast. Destroyed completely in an earthquake around 200 AD, old-growth forest now embraces the tumbled stone ruins which visitors can freely explore. You can watch cl…

Towering over a neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the giant skeletal robot known as Coloso only looks imposing until the neon lights dance across its face.

Visiting this 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden within a modern library is like taking a step back in time to the days when libraries had smoking rooms and chandeliers.

Until the shockingly recent year of 1978, Geamana village was thriving with a markedly comfortable and happy populace living in a lush valley. Unfortunately in this same year, rich reserves of copper were found in the nearby area…

Our tools for communication have evolved exponentially since the days when this Massachusetts house was the envy the town, but the place itself remains remarkably unchanged.

China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei have all deemed these scattered islands important enough to lay claim to them, establish a military presence there, and even make attempts at colonization. But why?

It's the enigmatic part of monoliths—were they spiritual in purpose, or a measure of distance?— that drew American photographer Barbara Yoshida to spend 10 years traveling to 15 countries to capture these sentinels of the Stone Age.

For such a small city, Whittier packs a number of singular features into one place.

Near sunny San Diego, the small area known as Lemon Grove is famous for its Giant Lemon, a sight to behold for all roadside novelty-seekers. Also, mummies.

Nearly 30 years later, radiation from Chernobyl still scars the landscape. Perhaps most remarkably, some of that radiation traveled hundreds of miles downwind, settled into the soil, and moved up through the food chain. So now we have radioactive wild boars, still roaming around Germany causing trou…

Izvorul Calimanului Mountain looks like many of the Carpathians’ uninhabited peaks: snow-capped in the winter, fir trees thinning near its rocky 6670-ft peak. Few hikers visit, but Dacre Stoker thinks tourist dollars could erupt from the extinct Transylvanian volcano.