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This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

This colorful hotel is also a full-blown rock 'n' roll compound.

A Czech shoe magnate built his office inside a giant elevator.

This former atomic bunker is now the Olomouc Institute of Remembrance, telling stories of the communist era.

Czechoslovakia’s first competition pool, now a decaying ruin of a functionalist marvel.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.

A quiet memorial to the victims of the Soviet-backed communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Where water once promised healing.

Denied an electric train set as a child, a wealthy man built this railroad instead.

An unlikely link between a quiet English town and Sydney’s skyline.

Built in the 18th century, and now the largest roost for hibernating bats in Britain.

Hidden in plain sight inside this church is a pulpit that was occasionally used by the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’

A Nile crocodile, a historic symbol of apothecaries, is among the fascinating collection.

A small and tranquil hidden garden in commemoration of one of the great Victorian plant collectors.

One of the oldest surviving buildings in Colchester dates back to the 11th century.