Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

The second largest reclining Buddha in the world got "lost" for over 120 years.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

A grand example of 19th century Burmese teak architecture, and the most significant of Mandalay's historic buildings.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.