Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

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

The holes in this wall provide a glimpse into Jewish life in Budapest, both past and present.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

Stretching for 22 miles, the world's longest tree-lined avenue dates back to the early 17th-century.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

Tragic reminders of the 1945 firebombing campaign over Tokyo still haunt this bridge.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

This site commemorates the life of a Japanese scientist who dedicated his life to the discovery of diseases.