The scrubby little kochia plants, otherwise known as summer cypress, are not much to look at for most of the year, but at the end of the wet season they take on an extraordinary brilliant red col...
Fifty thousand bodies are buried in the 37 acres of the Glasgow Necropolis which sits on a hill adjacent to the Glasgow Cathedral. Monuments of every architectural style are here, designed by maj...
Meteora is a monastery complex in Kalabaka, Greece, perched on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes. The name Meteora means “suspended in the air” or “suspended rocks” and ...
From its geothermal natural spas to its museums of witchcraft, Iceland is a fascinating country, and is home to some of the most stunning vistas in the world. This gorgeous photo was captured by ...
A Sunday spent with hot apple cider and the book that lets you explore the strangest, most beautiful corners of the world without ever leaving your chair. 📸: Photo captured by @bookbaristas, w...
Thrust into the middle of urban Philadephia is what looks like a great castle, a massive and haunting building. Opened in 1829, Eastern State was designed as a new type of prison where order reig...
Paris’ beautiful opera house, the Palais Garnier, was built in 1861 and seats almost 2,000 people.
Hotel Belvédère is an abandoned hotel in the Furka Pass of the Swiss Alps. Once the perfect spot for travelers looking to explore the stunning Rhone Glacier, its traffic slowly trickled to a ha...
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where y...
The Palace of Mafra is a stunning, massive Baroque and Neoclassical palace-monastery built in 1717 in Portugal. The library, pictured here, holds around 36,000 books. 📸: Photo regrammed from @...
This Texas cave network is home to some of the world’s most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations. The caverns of Sonora were discovered by accident in 1905 on ranch land....
It wasn’t until 1982 that China created its first national park: Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. They couldn’t have chosen a better site - Zhangjiajie is famous for its 3,000 vertical pilla...
It took over seven years and 10,000 craftsman to construct the Hassan II Mosque, but the result is a modern and massive tribute to the former King of Morocco that beautifully blends traditional M...
The Ha’iku Stairs, aptly nicknamed the Stairway to Heaven, are a steep climb on the island of Oahu that seems to disappear into the sky itself. See more stunning staircases built into nature in...
An ancient stone fortress used by a king of Sri Lanka as a place to build his palace and hide from his brother’s attacks, Sigiriya (The Lion Mountain) is often considered the eighth wonder of t...
Scotland’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is free to enter, and has 22 themed galleries holding more than 8,000 exhibits. 📸: Photo regrammed from intrepid explorer and photographer @kirs...
Craigievar Castle looks like something from a fairytale. Located in Alford, Scotland, the castle has a Great Hall which is connected to the high tower via a secret staircase. Supposedly, it serve...
The ruins of Belchite are a haunting place. The old Spanish town found itself on the front lines during the Spanish Civil War, and was completely ravaged. Today Belchite looks largely as it did i...
While the monument bears a striking resemblance to the Millennium Falcon, this impressive architectural feat is actually a memorial to an uprising in Croatia. Atop a hill in the small town of Pod...
Nestled in the thick jungles of Chile’s Huilo Natural Reserve (home to Pudu, the world’s smallest deer species, and the longest zip line system in South America), the Montaña Mágica Lodge i...