This conservation area filled with colorful birds is the last community forest within the city of Kathmandu.

Designed to honor the birthplace of Buddha.

This memorial honors a village that was destroyed during a 2015 earthquake.

The site where Sakyamuni Buddha first met his father after achieving enlightenment.

This representation of Lord Vishnu is the largest stone sculpture in Nepal.

Visitors to the National Museum of Nepal can moon over a set of well-traveled flags.

Feast your eyes upon hundreds of Nepal's native butterflies and moths.

A museum with a window view of the Himalayas and an on-site climbing wall.

The spot where Parvati convinced Shiva to marry her, has become a pilgrimage site for married and unmarried women.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

Some of the ancient-looking huts among these strange rock formations aren't ancient at all, but built as part of a movie set.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

Haunting monument to the German Jewish philosopher who died while fleeing fascism.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

The second-largest collection of runic calendar staffs in Sweden.

Underwater roads undetectable from the surface used for escape routes from foreign invaders.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

This former Nazi labor camp is now a poignant memorial, complete with giant Soviet-style monuments.