Gargantuan home of Russian science.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

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.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

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

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.