This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

Stalin's secret bunker.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

WWII rocket launchpad in rural Germany and site of operation backfire.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.