Ivolginskiy datsan, Russia
Ivolginsky Datsan
The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.
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Ivolginskiy datsan, Russia
The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.
Ulan-Ude, Russia
This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.
Mirny, Russia
The world's second-largest excavated hole.
Costa Rica
These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.
Gardone Riviera, Italy
A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.
Tremosine, Italy
This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.
Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Italy
This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.
Marostica, Italy
Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.
Crespano del Grappa, Italy
This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.
Italy
This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.
Nervesa della Battaglia, Italy
Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Kremsmünster, Austria
This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Naucalpan, Mexico
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
Ronda, Spain
Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.
Aybak, Afghanistan
Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Asturias, Spain
An abandoned Indian-inspired mansion.
Yeres, Spain
Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.
Collodi, Italy
Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.
Beatenberg, Switzerland
Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.
Milan, Italy
Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.
Milan, Italy
Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.