The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

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.

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

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

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