Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

This elegant neoclassical garden is a peaceful oasis in the middle of the Nepalese capital.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.