Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

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

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

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.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.