This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

This colorful colonial neighborhood in Panjim is one of the only Latin Quarters in Asia.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

World's most expensive home.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

Legend has it a commoner volunteered to be buried alive in the foundation so that the great fortress could be built.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."