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

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.