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A former palace designed for the consorts of the Travancore royal dynasty.

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.

Malaysia's floating mosque.

This tiny island in the South China Sea is crawling with venomous sea snakes.

Next to the Malaysian Prime Minister’s office stands this rose-colored mosque.

Cartoon clouds and nature-inspired murals have transformed the streets of Kuala Lumpur.

Kuala Lumpur’s historic single-screen cinema, transformed into a labyrinthine bookstore.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

Hang out with thousands of butterflies in one of the world's largest such enclosures.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

From the dishes to the art, this Michelin-starred restaurant orbits around one beloved French melon.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

The construction of a new church near Venosa was started in the 11th century, but never finished.

The world's largest bicycle shelter can hold more than 12,500 two-wheelers.

The pristine waters crossing this forest form a hidden waterfall among the dense vegetation.