An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

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

The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

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

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

The other side is actually green.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

Numerous impressive carvings are embedded in the trees lining this street in Marrakech.

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.