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

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.