Moscow, Russia
A.N. Scriabin Memorial Museum
A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.
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Moscow, Russia
A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.
Moscow, Russia
World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.
Moscow, Russia
Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.
Aswan, Egypt
The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.
San Gimignano, Italy
These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Jamestown, North Dakota
A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.
Rugby, North Dakota
A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.
Volgograd, Russia
The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.
Kazan, Russia
Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Moscow, Russia
This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.