Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw Uprising Monument
A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.
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Warsaw, Poland
A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.
Warsaw, Poland
A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.
Helsinki, Finland
An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.
Helsinki, Finland
This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.
Guelph, Ontario
The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.
Washington, D.C.
Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.
Washington, D.C.
A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.
Washington, D.C.
Home to items never before seen by the public.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Amherstburg, Ontario
An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.
Washington, D.C.
A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.
Hamilton, Ontario
With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.
Washington, D.C.
It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
Kaunas, Lithuania
A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.
Kaunas, Lithuania
Ever-growing collection of devils in art.
Vilnius, Lithuania
This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.
Vilnius, Lithuania
The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.
Vilnius, Lithuania
While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.
Tallinn, Estonia
This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Tallinn, Estonia
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
Tallinn, Estonia
The Guardian of Tallinn.
Tallinn, Estonia
"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.
Riga, Latvia
A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.
Riga, Latvia
Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.