One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A serene space tucked amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong's bustling financial district.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

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

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.