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

The coldest city in the world.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

An art museum inside an active factory.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

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

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

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

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.