Brussels, Belgium
The Musical Instrument Museum
Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.
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Brussels, Belgium
Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.
Brussels, Belgium
Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Bangkok, Thailand
This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.
Bangkok, Thailand
The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.
Bangkok, Thailand
Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.
Bangkok, Thailand
A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.
Bangkok, Thailand
A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.
Tambon Phra Prathom Chedi, Thailand
Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.
Bangkok, Thailand
For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.
Bangkok, Thailand
Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.
Bangkok, Thailand
A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.
Bangkok, Thailand
On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.
Bangkok, Thailand
The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.
Santiago, Chile
A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Santiago, Chile
This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.
Santiago, Chile
A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.
Yerevan, Armenia
Half of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ashes were buried in Armenia.
Yerevan, Armenia
This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.
Yerevan, Armenia
This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.
Arinj, Armenia
She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.
Belgrade, Serbia
A towering spire in the fortress of Kalemegdan honors the victorious armies of Serbia during their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.