Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

The world's largest permanent architectural projection display entertains audiences nightly with 28-story light shows.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A museum run by retired highway engineers who helped rebuild after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

This museum offers a glimpse into early 20th-century Glasgow life.

This Georgian mansion blends historical significance with an impressive art collection within picturesque surroundings.

Inside this art museum resides one of Glasgow's most famous musical instruments.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.