A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

On holy holidays, Israel's second president used this room atop Mount Zion as a refuge to read the Torah.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

On the small Thai island of Ko Mak, there is a forgotten garden of erotic statuary.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The former home of a foreign correspondent who reported on Korea’s independence movement has been restored and is open to the public.