From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

The deepest metro station in the world.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

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

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This seemingly random 30-foot statue of an oryx in Qatar's capital was a mascot for the 2006 Asian Games.