A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.