Tatar Russian in origin, the largest mosque in Japan is now an Ottoman-style Turkish culture center.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

The Seven Story Pagoda of Sibu.

Malaysia's floating mosque.

A memorial to the thousands of political dissidents imprisoned during the 38-year period of martial law in Taiwan.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

The histories of modern Chinese literature and anti-Japanese resistance collide in this Shanghai park.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.