The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

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

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

A museum run by retired highway engineers who helped rebuild after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

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

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

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.