This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This historic Chinese tower was said to have been haunted by fox spirits but is now haunted by a grisly murder.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.