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

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.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The middle finger of modernity.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The home of two of Scotland's most important artists has been reassembled in the Hunterian Art Gallery.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

A grand Buddhist temple with Indian influences.

Japan's first train station is also the site of Godzilla's first destructive visit to the nation.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

The official flag of the short-lived Republic of Formosa.