The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A natural swimming hole that was once a ceremonial center for Mayan priests.