This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.