Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.

One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.

After a 2004 tsunami, this stranded boat was left in place.