The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an eighth-century Buddhist master.

Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

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

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.