This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

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

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.