Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

Gustave Eiffel's masterpiece until the Eiffel Tower was built.

This grand old Chinese medical facility has been restored and reopened to serve its original purpose.

A short walk up a small hill provides spectacular sunset and nighttime views of Kowloon

Built on the side of a mountain, this once poor village has been turned into the "Santorini of Korea"

Why trying to get lost in the old quarters of Essaouira may be harder than you think

The ruins of a fifth-century church dedicated to Our Lady of the Harbor.

This often-missed monastery, set in a scenic mountain landscape, features unique frescoes, fortifications and legends.

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

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

The peace and seclusion of Kyoto’s “Moss Temple” is no accident.

A beautiful mausoleum is the crown jewel of a preserved ancient city in Central Asia.

This Buddhist temple on the island of Penang is one of the largest in Southeast Asia.

Designed by a computer, this intricate network of fluorescent green pipes has taken over a subway station.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A lesser-known World Heritage Site with an amazing Byzantine style mosaic of Jesus on the semi-dome of the apse

This elegant black and white striped arch is emblematic of Catania's resilience to natural disasters

A coin-operated model railway tucked inside a busy train station

The Friedrich Ebert Memorial in Heidelberg commemorates the first democratic head of state in German history.

The Guinness Book acknowledged one of the biggest and oldest collections of computer games, featuring a strange 'pain machine' that blurs the boundaries between the digital and the real world

An important message and optimistic splash of color in a troubled neighborhood.

The largest stretch of the Berlin Wall is right on top of the former SS headquarters

In a quiet neighborhood in the south of Berlin is one of the most ambitious social housing experiments of the 20th century.