A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A student driver's nightmare.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.