The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.