The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.