Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

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

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.