Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

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

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.