The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.