Latvia’s first skyscraper, nicknamed ‘Stalin’s birthday cake.’

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

This third-generation institution is one of the last in London that still cures its own salt beef for epic sandwiches.

One man's attempt to stay one step ahead of the church.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

This train station meeting spot is an actual, millennia-old tree from the island of Yakushima.

Little-known artist couple chose a former silk factory as the location for a museum dedicated to their work and other avant-garde art.

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

The centuries-old cobblestones of a feudal highway remain in the woods of Hakone.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Open since 1690, this former teahouse makes “strength mochi” based on the centuries-old recipe.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

This mysterious medieval grotto holds a grid of sacred wells of unknown purpose.

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