Kyiv, Ukraine
Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
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Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Lviv, Ukraine
This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.
London, England
Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
A student driver's nightmare.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Višňové, Slovakia
The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.
Budapest, Hungary
A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.
Budapest, Hungary
From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.
Budapest, Hungary
Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.
Błędów, Poland
People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.
Warsaw, Poland
Ruins of a late 1950s Polish ski jump ramp in the middle of the city.
Sochaczew, Poland
This unique railroad museum secretly contains the history of Poland rebuilding itself from the inside-out.
Karpacz, Poland
This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.
Gdańsk, Poland
A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.
Warsaw, Poland
A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.
Poland
These massive moving sand dunes have swallowed an entire village and are still on the run.
Wrocław, Poland
A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.