The tallest hotel in Europe.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

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

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.