These bronze statues depict the early days of trading in Singapore.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

A glowing underwater cliff attracts marine life and divers in equal measure.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.