In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Artist Danielle Jacqui decorates nearly every inch of her home inside and out with her work.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

A unique beach made of a myriad of multi-sized pebbles.

A mausoleum dedicated to a warrior felled by misplaced loyalty and tragic circumstances.

Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.

Malaysia's first and only glass temple.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.

Japan's longest-running music festival takes place on an isolated butterfly-shaped island.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.