Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Venice's island of the dead.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.