A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

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

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.