Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

This little sun pays homage to a massive gate that once stood at this location.

One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.

These 400-year-old ruins are all that's left of the monastery where Ines de Castro was assassinated by the King of Portugal.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

A journey through the history of medicine throughout the centuries.

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

A unique collection of artistic rides

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.