Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

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

Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

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

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.