China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

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

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

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

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

A reconstruction of a classic mansion on the island of Delos was designed for a historian and archaeologist.

Different sections of the Zemun Fortress were built in the 14th and 15th century as a response to the advance of the Ottoman Empire.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.