This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

This record setting conveyor belt system can even be seen from space.

Rocky Atlantic beach home to a stunning stone arch.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Sleepy fishing port not included on many maps.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

The other side is actually green.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

A vast and unlikely aviation museum kept alive for over 50 years due to one man's tenacity.