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

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

This nugget of paradise earned its name for obvious reasons.

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

One of Ayutthaya’s most iconic locations is a mysterious, hauntingly surreal miracle.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

This 17th-century Portuguese fort now houses a nautical museum.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.