When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.

The coldest city in the world.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

A 12th century church completely covered in shells.

A historic Christian shrine nestled within a spectacular natural cave.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.