Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

An art museum inside an active factory.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

The rubbery beast is sculpted from recycled materials.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Switzerland's oldest public observatory is an important part of the Zurich cityscape.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.