Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

These two 90-year-old statues were once part of a Japanese Shinto shrine.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

You can still see the remains of a sacred 3,000-year-old cypress.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.