Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Death road of Bolivia.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

World's strongest whirlpool.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Berlin's old airport.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.