Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

Back in the tiny USSR.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

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

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.