According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

The site of Japan’s first archaeological excavation is also the birthplace of fingerprint forensics.

This Metabolist, retro-futuristic residential complex resembles a cyberpunk space colony established on Earth.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

The remains of the vast manor that once belonged to Lord Kira, villain in the 47 Ronin story, is now a shrine dedicated to the incident.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

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

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

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