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A museum dedicated to the former country.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

This ice cream parlor serves scoops of flavors like rakia, medlar, and poppy seed.

This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

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

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.