This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

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

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.