A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

An extravagant 18th-century fountain built with bits of broken ceramic.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.