This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A tragic legacy of the attempt to beautify Skopje and line the pockets of corrupt politicians

The world's largest KFC restaurant is housed in a historic railway station in Azerbaijan's capital city

The remains of the medieval city walls that once protected the Genoese quarter of Constantinople

A pentagram-covered shrine dedicated to a famed court astrologer known in the west as the Merlin of Japan.

A displaced shrine that was put back after a string of bad luck.

Modest but unique pyramid built for a pharaoh has been reduced to a “heap of stone.”

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

Japan's legendary filmmaker is interred in a small graveyard in a similarly modest temple in Kamakura.

A rare group of seven-century-old mummies preserved in astonishing detail.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

These statues are dedicated to the damned souls of those executed centuries ago on the beautiful Yuigahama beach.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

The legendary wooden horse that stands in modern Troy is a prop from the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen film.

Stand on the rim of a dormant volcano and gaze across a vast ash plain frozen in time.