Glasgow, Scotland
'All Greatness Stands Firm in the Storm'
A unique art installation located on what was once considered the widest railway bridge in the world.
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Glasgow, Scotland
A unique art installation located on what was once considered the widest railway bridge in the world.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Designed to illustrate two parts of the human psyche.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.
Brooklyn, New York
A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.
Brooklyn, New York
Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.
Vladivostok, Russia
A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.
Birobidzhan, Russia
Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.
Turukhansky District, Russia
Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.
Zhanaarka District, Kazakhstan
The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.
Yekaterinburg, Russia
It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.
Volgograd, Russia
The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.
Volgograd, Russia
The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.
Volgograd, Russia
Volcanic irregularity? Odd erosion? Alien eggs? Local legends compete to explain these strange orbs.
Tambov, Russia
A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.
Moscow, Russia
The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.
Kharkiv, Ukraine
It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.
Sevastopol, Ukraine
In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.
Odessa, Ukraine
A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.
Kyiv, Ukraine
A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.
Vyshhorods'kyi district, Ukraine
Marvel at the excessive luxury of the ousted Ukrainian president's former estate.
Kyiv, Ukraine
Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.
Pereiaslav, Ukraine
A century-old church is now a space museum with a treasure trove of Soviet space items.
Minsk, Belarus
A window into the luxurious lives led by the landed gentry of Minsk before the 1917 Revolution.