A private home museum with a collection of over 5,000 Peranakan artifacts.

A giant baby floats in the middle of Singapore’s nature park.

The confluence of modernist and traditional architecture in this religious complex reflects the history of both the living and the dead being uprooted, displaced, and rehoused.

Singapore's oldest Hindu temple.

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

This jam-packed Singapore antique museum preserves the fading remnants of a uniquely mixed culture.

A lively circle of dancers in the Georgian capital commemorates an ancient rite of spring.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

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

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.