A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

For over 75 years, this cute stone statue has warmed the hearts of San Antonio.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.