Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

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

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

These charming mailboxes became social media stars after a typhoon failed to topple them.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

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

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