Malaysia's floating mosque.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Venice's island of the dead.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

A stick-sprouting statue watching a duo of disembodied dancing deities.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.