Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

Medieval village and microminiature museum.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

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

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.