The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

A vast, otherworldly collection of Buddhist stupas.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.