This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

A brick labyrinth hidden in a church courtyard where anyone can take a quiet, contemplative walk.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

An eye-catching model town in a San Diego backyard.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Statues pay tribute to the icons of "Killer Dana," one of California's most famous surfing towns.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Slather on the history at an exhibition dedicated to this Russian luxury.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

The Russians still use the transmitter Nazis built during World War II to communicate with submarines.

During the Soviet era, the medieval capital of Volga Bulgaria served as a substitute for Mecca.

Stalin's secret bunker.

The largest-known fragment of an asteroid that exploded over the southern Ural region in 2013.

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

A remote Arctic mountain range is home to "granite cities" found almost nowhere else.

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

This eerie sculpture overlooks what was known as the Road of Bones under Joseph Stalin.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

The coldest city in the world.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.