Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

This holy site either displays a centuries-old cross or a complete fake.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.

One of the earliest subway stations in Stockholm, which still looks like the 1950s.

A Very Low Frequency transmitter you can tune in on your PC.

Once the center of power for the region's various factories.

A statue of the heroic plumber stands outside a company that bluffed its way into being Nintendo’s Scandinavian distributor.

Walking through this narrow gorge will make you feel like you've fallen into a fairytale landscape.

Take a schvitz just like an infamous Soviet dictator while his unblinking eye looks on.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.