If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

An artful memorial to 4,000 fateful oranges.

This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster.

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

The deepest metro station in the world.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Legend says it was constructed with the destroyed pillar of an ancient Greek Temple.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

After being bombed and largely abandoned, this former railway workshop has been transformed into a lively market space.

The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.

Hang out with thousands of butterflies in one of the world's largest such enclosures.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.