What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

In this town's main square resides a statue of none other than the 43rd President of the United States.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

Rub it for a bit of good luck.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This oak has seen Vikings, the Black Death, and world wars pass but refuses to give up.

The ruins of a monastery where Saint Bridget of Sweden had her revelations recorded.

This traffic circle in a small Swedish town is adorned with a statue of a giant potato.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

A railway, a waterway, and a roadway all in one, suspended over a rushing river.

Sweden's largest remaining gantry crane is a relic of Gothenburg's industrial past.