A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

This mysterious but iconic tapered tower appears in many Azeri fairytales and legends.

In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.

A quirky house created entirely out of glass bottles combines a collector's spirit with an artist's flair.

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.