A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

The roof of one of the world’s largest spice markets provides a grand view over the neighborhood's glorious bustle.

This elegant neoclassical garden is a peaceful oasis in the middle of the Nepalese capital.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

This copper-coated, multi-arched dome is surrounded by a moat and lights up at night.

Final resting place for hundreds of prisoners of war.

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

This odd 1930s shop remains stranded in time and shrouded in mystery.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.