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

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

The deepest metro station in the world.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

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

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

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

Local lore says passing infants through its holes could magically cure them of measles and rickets.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

It's a mystery as to why this inland village chose the dolphin as its symbol.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

Ancient human remains unearthed around the iconic monument.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.