The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

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

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

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

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

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

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

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

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

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

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

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

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.