On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

This living legend of maritime history is enjoying a second life.

This mysterious anthropomorphic statuette is on display at the National Museum of Oman.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

This underground art installation recreates an ancient date honey storeroom.

Skyscraper powered by wind turbines attached between its towers.

Is this amazing tableau depicting Gilgamesh and Enki 4,000 years old?

Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

The first woman in America to receive a medical degree.

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

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

Enter the world under the hill at this ancient UK burial chamber.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

The raised stones in the middle of this road through Culross are relics of a 17th-century class divide.

A mythological Celtic beast built with thousands of colorful tiles stands guard over a historic canal junction.

It's believed a castle existed at this site since the 12th century.

It's said taking a hammer and nail to this stone relieves a toothache.

According to local legend, this church was built with two doors, so that residents of two rival villages had their own entrances.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.