The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

This clock is an architectural flourish that stands out as a landmark among a unique Israeli German community.

Israel's first dedicated natural history museum is home to 5 million specimens and still growing.

This garden is very fertile.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

Miraculous vase predicts the future at this Tibetan Buddhist site in the Himalayas.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.