The national park was once a plantation estate.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.