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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

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

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.