Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A cone-shaped top and cylindrical body set this 900-year-old structure apart from other Italian bell towers.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.