Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

Hidden behind musical flora and forgotten for over a thousand years, this cave is now a neon dream.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

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

A Viking-themed bar in a canal town for those retreating from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai.

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

London's old-school healing garden.