This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

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

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.