Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

This giant Cold War satellite dish has become a symbol of Trinidad's need for sovereignty.

A brick arch is all that remains of this Dutch fort, once a focal point for colonial power struggles in Guyana.

Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.

The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.

A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Wander among hulking piles of rusted machinery left over from the Eritrean-Ethiopian War.

Eritrea's futuristic gas station is a nod to Italy's fascist history.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

An 18th-century fort in the business district of Mumbai.

In Mumbai, a bright blue synagogue is the largest one for the Baghdadi Jewish community in Asia.

A 19th-century church in South Mumbai built to commemorate those who died in the First Anglo-Afghan War and the retreat from Kabul in 1842.

This colorful colonial neighborhood in Panjim is one of the only Latin Quarters in Asia.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

The last remaining colonial-era Italian church in Old Goa.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

This Gothic-style church is reputedly built atop the remains of one of Jesus's apostles.