Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

The holes in the world's longest golf course are in a series of different towns.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

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

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.