This Ecuadorian cemetery is home to a jaw-dropping topiary wonderland.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

This former medieval prison now unlocks Estonia’s rich photographic history.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

Stalin's secret bunker.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.