This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

The deepest metro station in the world.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.