The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.