The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

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

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

Built by a North Korean team this monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila has a suspiciously Kim Jong Il shaped body.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

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

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

The best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.

A museum dedicated to the least secret spy is actually an attempt to get Hollywood's attention.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.