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An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A Syrian family keeps memories of their homeland alive at this sweet shop.

This historic castle is one of the oldest and most impressive in all of Japan.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

This mysterious pyramid is said to be part of a complex web of occult and Freemason symbols.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

A massive mammoth bone has been on display inside this church since the 18th century.

This museum houses and extensive collection of technology contributed by the Polish people.

These plaques found across Warsaw commemorate the sites where executions or battles took place during the German occupation.

Once home to some 250,000 volumes and priceless art artifacts, this Polish estate was a target of bombing during World War II.

A heavily politicized roundabout discussing the state of a heavily politicized country.

A bronze replica of an elm tree that honors the victims that perished in Pawaik Prison.

This colorful and quirky set of pegasus sculptures celebrate the works of poet Zbigniew Herbert.

Atop this library is one of the most beautiful green spaces in Warsaw.

The last king of Poland was interred in this church nearly 200 years after his death.