The ruins of what is considered the world's oldest university.

Designed as a 17th-century watchtower, the former fort is now a popular sunset haunt.

Constructed in 1923, this is one of several heritage drinking fountains across Mumbai.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.

Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.

In Mumbai, a bright blue synagogue is the largest one for the Baghdadi Jewish community in Asia.

A deeply beautiful 15th-century stepwell with a tragic story.

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Home to what was once considered the largest gate in central Asia.

18m long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

How a lunch counter in Chile became a shrine to the 42nd president of the United States

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.