The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Built entirely of interlocking pieces, construction of this Chinese Muslim house of worship required zero nails.

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.

A 17th-century mosque that was used for war more than worship.

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

One of the most ethnically diverse spots on the planet.