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Gene Sticco

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Red Light Secrets.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Red Light Secrets

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam Cheese Museum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam Cheese Museum

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

Giethoorn

Giethoorn, Netherlands

Giethoorn

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

Speciality shop in scientific and pharmaceutical objects.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nieuwe Spiegelstraat

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

"The Cat Boat."

Amsterdam, Netherlands

De Poezenboot (The Cat Boat)

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The Torture Museum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Torture Museum

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Houston Maritime Museum Exterior

Houston, Texas

Houston Maritime Museum

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

National Museum of Funeral History

Houston, Texas

National Museum of Funeral History

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Downtown Tinseltown

Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Sign

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Abandoned castle tower in Kaliningrad oblast.

Kaliningrad, Russia

Kaliningrad Oblast

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

Lubyanka

Moscow, Russia

Lubyanka

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Tsarskoye Selo

Pushkin, Russia

The Amber Room

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Lenin's Mausoleum

Moscow, Russia

Lenin's Mausoleum

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

Aerial view of the Erbil citadel (also known as Hawler Castle)

Erbil, Iraq

Erbil Citadel

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

The South Fremantle Power Station

North Coogee, Australia

The South Fremantle Power Station

The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.

Trim the Cat.

Sydney, Australia

Trim the Cat

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

Royal Botanic Gardens

Sydney, Australia

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Whitehaven Beach

Whitsundays, Australia

Whitehaven Beach

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

The Dingo Flour sign on the side of a silo.

North Fremantle, Australia

Dingo Flour Sign

Visible from both land and sea.

Odessa Cable Car

Odessa, Ukraine

Odessa Cable Car

Built in the Soviet era, this cableway system still runs gondolas from Odessa down to Otrada Beach.

Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland

Kyiv, Ukraine

Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Exhibit resembling reactor 4 which suffered the catastrophic failure, Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum, Kyev, Ukraine

Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

The Frank Zappa memorial in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Frank Zappa Memorial

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

The Mermaid of Užupis

Vilnius, Lithuania

The Mermaid of Užupis

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

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