Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.