This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

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

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

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

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

A mecca for India's Jains.

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

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.