The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

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