A superb spot to appreciate the traditional boats of the Indian Ocean.

This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

This seemingly random 30-foot statue of an oryx in Qatar's capital was a mascot for the 2006 Asian Games.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

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

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

This gigantic 18th-century gateway in Lucknow was built to provide relief and employment to the people during a famine

This magnificent 18th-century hall consists of a maze of nearly a thousand interconnected passages.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

This Gothic-style church is reputedly built atop the remains of one of Jesus's apostles.

One of India’s largest second-hand bookstores, with more than 600,000 volumes lining its walls.