A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.