From grand battles to daily life, this Spanish museum offers a view of world history in miniature.

Walk into an underground archeological dig, the site of the Roman Forum that was once the center of Valencia.

This vast collection of smoking pipes from across the world spans centuries.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

These ruins by the Dead Sea is where John the Baptist met his untimely end.

Housed in an old British jail, this spot serves up Georgian, Russian, and Ukrainian specialities with a side of Turkish history.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.