One of the most notable figures in the Wurstelprater’s history is often assumed to be a fictional character.

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

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

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

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.

The tallest statue in the world is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

From prostitutes to soldiers to business men, the dead in this graveyard are a microcosm of Singapore's history with Japan.

The busy transport hub is home to the tallest airport slide in the world.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

Singapore's oldest Hindu temple.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

A manifestation of modernist architectural ideas, this massive, multi-purpose building was one of the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.