A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

An enormous effigy of the goddess of compassion hides within the sanctuary.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.

Comprised of thousands of cave temple carvings this cornucopia of ancient Chinese stone art is unrivaled anywhere in the world.