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

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

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

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

The largest hewn stone in history.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.