This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

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

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.