Environmentally crucial raptors like eagles and vultures are kept and protected in this massive sanctuary.

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

This replica medieval European village in the Dominican Republic was built by a Hollywood set designer.

Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.