This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A vast museum devoted to North Korea's victories against its imperialist enemies.

A former palace transformed into a mausoleum for North Korea's supreme leaders.

One of the largest public squares in the world, named after the former DPRK supreme leader.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.

Captured in 1968, the Cold War spy ship is the only U.S. Navy vessel being held by a foreign government.

A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

This likeness of the famous revolutionary is entirely made of recycled scraps of metal.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

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

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.