An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

Today this former Nazi concentration camp stands as a poignant memorial to the victims of fascism, and a warning from history.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

The remains of this castle, known as the Witch’s Eye, watch over the Thur Valley.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

A painted medieval castle where the most celebrated outlaw-poet of the Middle Ages was imprisoned — and where you can descend into his exact cell, nine centuries later.

Along the banks of the River Rhine lies a park that seems unassuming, but beneath the surface lies a long and fascinating history.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

This statue of a medical missionary is sometimes used to gauge flood levels during typhoons.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

You can still see the remains of a sacred 3,000-year-old cypress.

Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.

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

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

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

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

An imperial art museum offers edible versions of its most treasured displays in an on-site fine-dining restaurant.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

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

A lake that borders Kazakhstan and Russia allegedly harbors the giant "Terror Trout" or "Chinese Nessie."

The western-most fortress on the Great Wall of China has gone from a strategic stronghold to a kitschy tourist carnival.