This botanical garden boasts sculptures, industrial ruins, and an endorsement from the Dalai Lama.

This art shopping center still boasts pieces of its past as a textile factory.

An artisanal toy-maker’s works are highlighted in this museum dedicated to the craft of toys.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The ruins of an abandoned 17th-century fort that was almost completely destroyed by a fire.

According to legend, this temple was built to pin down the body of a demoness who lay across the Himalayas.

This Bhutanese site is one of eight sacred locales established by a revered 14th-century Buddhist master.

Legend has it a sacred treasure hidden by an ancient guru was revealed with a burning butter lamp from these waters.

An 18th-century Nepali-style chorten built to subdue demons and evil spirits.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

One of Bhutan's oldest temples was purportedly built to halt a giant female ogre from preventing the spread of Buddhism across Tibet.

Sweden's southernmost prehistoric rock art is hidden just outside Gothenburg.

His body was found mysteriously preserved in a Swedish mine over 40 years after his initial disappearance.

A stupa built to protect Bhutan from evil forces and help bring peace to the world.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

This penis-focused monastery is dedicated to Buddhism's "Divine Madman."

The largest and, arguably, most scenic fortress in Bhutan.

This 17th-century Bhutanese monastery is ensconced in Buddhist legend.

An urban laboratory.

The trailblazing Swedish businesswoman created a beloved minty candy called polkagris.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.