This village surrounded by breathtaking waterfalls is one of the wettest places on earth.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

A wide array of locomotives call this outdoor museum home.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

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

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

A sculpture of graceful storks sits atop this fountain in Independence Square.

The secret meeting held in this building would forever change the world.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.