A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

A giant baby floats in the middle of Singapore’s nature park.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

A unique, time-transcending work of art depicting the progress of trade in Singapore.

These bronze statues depict the early days of trading in Singapore.

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

A unique sculpture calls the outside of this steakhouse home.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

This two-towered gateway is all that remains of the unluckiest pier in the world.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

More than 70 detailed dioramas—including some rather nontraditional ones—fill this charming museum.