Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

This monument honors the life of a long-suffering lion whose story captivated the world.

A sobering museum dedicated to landmines and the personnel working to remove them from Afghanistan.

Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

World's largest Christmas store.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.