A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Back in the tiny USSR.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

Located along Lysaya Mountain, this monastery is home to the largest statue of Buddha in Russia.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

A failed infrastructure project now owns this unique moniker.

Venice's island of the dead.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Touching this little fossil embedded in the wall of a grand mosque-cathedral may make your wishes come true.