A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A tribute to the area's namesake and King Edward VII.

A tribute to one of Bombay's former governors that has withstood the test of time.

An 18th-century fort in the business district of Mumbai.

A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.

This archaeological site was once a grand city of the Indus Valley Civilization with a sophisticated system for conserving water.

The first English fort built in India.

An effigy of the deity emerges from a temple's water every 40 years.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

Known as the wettest place on earth.

A towering work of stone and philosophy that was constructed using ancient Hindu science.

The site of an atrocity that would be used to justify Britain’s conquest of India.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

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

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

This Gothic-style church is reputedly built atop the remains of one of Jesus's apostles.

This lavish estate recalls the opulent history of Calcutta.

This 11th-century temple gave rise to the word "juggernaut," as well as some mysteries that defy scientific explanation.