This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

At less than four inches in height, this iconic fictional character is the smallest public statue in all of Moldova.

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

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

This nearly abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.