During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.