A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Because there's no place like home.

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.