While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

This sweet-toothed bear searching for snacks has been a symbol of Madrid for decades.

Originally used to sell brandy, the bull-shaped billboard became an iconic symbol of Spain.

Originally planted by the ancient Carthaginians, this sprawling palm grove is one of the largest in the world.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.