The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

This fort dates back to 1588 and was colonized by the Portuguese, Dutch, and English and sits prominently on the Indian Ocean where azure water lap the coast.

This amazing mountain temple is topped by one of the tallest sitting Buddha statues in the world.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.