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

One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The only monument in Slovenia celebrating the famous writer, who stayed there for one night entirely by mistake.

When this monument to Slovenia's national poet was erected, it's said to have sparked the ire of nearby church authorities.

In between two buildings in Ljubljana, medieval tunnel to nowhere.

A cemetery for Slovenian notables also serves as a popular recreation space.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

This historic 19th-century building was the center of British trade and diplomacy in Taiwan.

Behind a 300-year-old temple hides a small tomb said to house the bones of 17th-century Dutch soldiers.

No children ride down this antique concrete slide.

On the roof of the oldest department store in Tainan stands a Shinto shrine dating back to the 1930s.

A museum commemorates what was once the largest freight station in Taiwan.

An American lighthouse stands on an island cliffside in Taiwan.

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.

On Green Island, a rock resembling the ancient Chinese sage gazes contemplatively out at sea.

Hidden in a cave on a small Taiwanese island, a stalagmite reported to look like the bodhisattva Guanyin.

High rises built to house displaced military personnel and their families form a unique cylindrical shape.

You can still see the remains of a sacred 3,000-year-old cypress.