The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

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

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

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

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

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

This nugget of paradise earned its name for obvious reasons.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Cavemen, elephants, and eagles greet passengers driving through the town's main intersection.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.