Moscow, Russia
Tsar Bell
World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.
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Moscow, Russia
World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.
Moscow, Russia
Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.
Moscow, Russia
Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.
Chernihiv, Ukraine
One of the largest remaining ancient burial mounds of the 10th century.
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Kawasaki, Japan
The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.
Hiroshima, Japan
Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Moscow, Russia
A 360 degree battlefield experience.
Turukhansky District, Russia
Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.
Moscow, Russia
Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.
Isahaya, Japan
This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.
Ōshima Island, Japan
This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.
Osaka, Japan
Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.
Karatsu, Japan
The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Beijing, China
Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.
A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.
Marshall Islands
The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.