This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

This castle was once the home of one of the most powerful women of the Renaissance.

Everyday, fans from across the globe visit the statue of one of the greatest Formula One drivers in history.

Since the 1960s, this small village has invited painters to decorate its walls.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

See hundreds of herons and egrets in the heart of the city in this dreamy hidden park.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

A field filled with carved medieval tombstones called stećak.

A swan-like monument on Obad's Hill honors those that defended the area from German invaders during WWII.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

The place where World War I began.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.