This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

A monument to the British doctor who connected mosquitoes to malaria.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

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

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.