A permanent exhibition honors Queen, which recorded seven albums at the casino-based studio, including “Under Pressure” with David Bowie.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This Underground station has been a popular filming location for decades, even before it closed.