The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

This Tibetan and Naxi village's Honey Rose wine bears the mark of 19th-century French missionaries.

One of the word's deepest gorges is also tied to a fantastic legend.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

Although resembling a grand Buddhist temple, this structure is actually the largest mosque in China.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

This 13th century Orthodox monastery is built right into the Moldovan cliffside.

A Reformation-era fiery figurehead once denoted this location as a print shop.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.