Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

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

A model village fit for an emperor.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.