Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

Artifacts showcasing the witchy history of Zambia.

Based on a real event, the statue is dedicated to those who fought and died for Zambia's independence.

An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

The equator passes through this tiny island in the eastern Atlantic.

This 17th-century Portuguese fort now houses a nautical museum.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.