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.

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

The place where World War I began.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

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