An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

The deepest metro station in the world.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.