The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

The deepest metro station in the world.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

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

Traditional architecture and ancient irrigation systems are on display in this gorgeous mountain village.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.