A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

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

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A small 12th-century temple surrounded by waters believed to have curative properties.

More than 100 Hindu temples are slowly being swallowed by the forest.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.