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Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

This unique formation is characterized by hexagonal basalt rocks stacked in unique formations.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

Shoes and revealing shirts are not allowed inside this giant Vietnamese Christ.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.