This exquisite, alienesque piece of Soviet architecture is being threatened by modern shopping malls.

Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.

This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

The deepest metro station in the world.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

A magical world of elves and fairies tucked amongst the trees in Colombia.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.