A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

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

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

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

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

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

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

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.