An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The world's largest wooden structure.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

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

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

Gargantuan home of Russian science.