Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The tiny statues form China's only known terracotta army from the Han dynasty.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The deepest metro station in the world.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.