The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

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

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

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

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.