Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

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

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

The oldest Hindu temple complex in Nepal serves as the seat of Nepal’s national deity, Lord Pashupatinath.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.

A brick building in Kathmandu's Durbar Square is home to Nepal's most prominent living goddess.

Space-age minarets towering over Islamabad.

A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.