A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This vast collection of smoking pipes from across the world spans centuries.

An ancient Egyptian obelisk is now used to commemorate fallen Italian soldiers.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

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

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.