Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Beach instrument turned bed and breakfast.

A winged-helmed, sword-brandishing tribute to German Americans.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

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These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.