North Pyongan Province, North Korea
North Korea's International Friendship Exhibition Hall
A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.
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North Pyongan Province, North Korea
A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.
Pyongyang, North Korea
North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Lefkoşa, Cyprus
The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.
Nicosia, Cyprus
This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.
Akrotiri, Cyprus
For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.
Larnaca, Cyprus
Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.
Mitsero, Cyprus
Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The deepest metro station in the world.
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.
Kyiv, Ukraine
When you've got to go, you've got to go.
Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Riga, Latvia
This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.
Riga, Latvia
A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.
Riga, Latvia
Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
York, England
This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.
Ballintoy, Northern Ireland
This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.
London, England
Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.