A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

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

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

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.