A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

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

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

The ruins of this Dutch castle sit atop a labyrinth of once-secret tunnels and passageways, dating back over 900 years.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.