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Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

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

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.

More than 50,000 gannets claim the cliffs of Bonaventure Island.

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

This giant roadside goose has been hailing travelers into a small Ontario town for over 50 years.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

The remains of the worst military aviation accident in Canada's history.

A sacred Ojibwe site covered in pictographs next to Lake Superior.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.