This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

First point in the Struve Geodetic Arc, a 19th century undertaking to measure the Earth's size and shape.

Historic slum of Tartu.

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

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

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

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.