Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.

Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

The largest salt lake in the Sahara is mysteriously alluring.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This French cemetery houses some of the most exquisite examples of funerary art in Mexico City.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

During its heyday, the massive estate boasted its own railroad station and post office.

This grand Pakistani mausoleum can only be accessed via an almost 1,000 foot long alleyway.

These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.