Fragments of the former temple's lost facade are now displayed in a strange library of stones.

A historic cemetery doubles as a museum containing hundreds of unique tombs sculpted by a single artist.

A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.

Hidden inside a hotel is a museum of miniature models depicting the traditions and history of Mexico.

A former factory hosts an amazing collection of Mexican marionettes.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.