340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

The hottest place on the planet.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.