An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

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

The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.