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

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.

"Medieval" castle built in the mid-20th century by one family.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.