New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.