An English brewery transported to North Korea.

A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.

This beach in Senegal marks the westernmost point on the African continent.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

A smoky doorway in Dakar leads to one of the city’s great communal eating experiences.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This post-Ottoman era church in Athens was built by locals to serve the residents of Anafiotica

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

Dedicated to a synagogue that was destroyed after having survived World War II.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Dedicated to this region's early settlements and rich history of salt mining.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

A relic of Poland's shipbuilding past, reborn as a sky-high lookout.

Memorial to the lost dead of Gdansk, whose resting places were destroyed during World War II.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

This castle was once the home of one of the most powerful women of the Renaissance.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.