A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

These post boxes from a bygone era have been the source of controversy and debate.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.

Dozens of elegant ceramic tiles decorate these ancient walls, each displaying the Lord's Prayer in a different language.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

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

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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

The cellar of a former factory is now home to a collection of gloves, machines, and tools of the trade.