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

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

A traditional Nepalese window blends into the historic merchant district of Old Nara Town.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

One of Amsterdam's narrowest houses is located right across the canal from its widest.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.