A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.

This stunning mountain lake was named for a pair of tragic lovers whose statues stand at the center.

Transmission tower outfitted with large crossbars that dampen wind-induced oscillations.

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.

This Ukranian fortress is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.

A beautiful art space and unusual mini-hotel hidden in the city center of Dnipro.

A peculiarly shaped brass sculpture hidden in a courtyard in central Lviv

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.

Marvel at the excessive luxury of the ousted Ukrainian president's former estate.

A fortress built to pacify local uprising that had a stint as a Nazi concentration camp before becoming a five-star hotel.

Last remaining nuclear missile base in Ukraine.

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

Remains of a station that only operated for one year.