Something about this Brazilian city is slightly askew... literally.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

A small town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones.

A memorial museum to the political prisoners who were held at Sighet Prison, once one of the most feared places in Romania.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

World's only telecommunication tower with a wooden pinnacle.

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

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.