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This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

The shallow, salty inlet was a safe haven for 19th-century pirates.

The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.

At this rare mosque in Tbilisi, Sunni and Shia Muslims pray side by side.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Back in the tiny USSR.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.