Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

An underground city of salt.

Overlooking the spot where the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower stands Devon's answer to the Colossus of Rhodes.

A 1930s Art Deco swimming pool with a design inspired by grand ocean liners.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Venice's island of the dead.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."