This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

A small granite monument marks where the borders of three countries meet.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.