A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

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

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

A macabre sculpture museum in the capital of Haiti fuses human bones with broken metal to create challenging contemporary art.

This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.