A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

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

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

One of the last examples of Soviet architectural propaganda has a few technological tricks up its sleeve.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.