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A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

This weekly market in the remote oasis city of Hotan still has the atmosphere of the old Silk Road.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This magnificent Crimean estate was once a playground of the Russian elite.

The longest trolleybus route in the world, from Simferopol and Yalta.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Intricate storybook scenes are tucked inside these shadow boxes, which are tucked inside a library in the Pocono Mountains.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.