340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

A UNESCO-protected spiritual seat of the Old Serbian Kingdom and Empire.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

This statue of the great Argentinian car driver is located near a famous curve of the Monaco Grand Prix.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel before his famed tower.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.