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Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

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

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

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

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

An ancient tomb that still stands in Portugal.

The "Little Ones," show Portugal in full miniature splendor.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.

A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.

A marker honors the brief peace found by a tormented artist in the fictional land of Kcymaerxthaere.

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.