This amazing mountain temple is topped by one of the tallest sitting Buddha statues in the world.

This ancient cave temple complex is the largest and best-preserved temple complex in Sri Lanka.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A World War II evacuation tunnel turned into a history display of Croatian state and people.

This narrow fjord-like bay is the largest ria in the Mediterranean Sea.