The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

The histories of modern Chinese literature and anti-Japanese resistance collide in this Shanghai park.

Comprised of thousands of cave temple carvings this cornucopia of ancient Chinese stone art is unrivaled anywhere in the world.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

This iconic clock tower is the largest in the Philippines.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

Giant money stones of Yap.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.