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According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.

Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

The composer did some of his finest work in this country home, including "The Nutcracker."

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

Intricate wood carvings on an island in Siberia.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.

Home of Vissarion, the "Jesus of Siberia."

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.