The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

A white oak with property rights.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

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

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

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

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

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.