A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

After a 2004 tsunami, this stranded boat was left in place.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

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

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

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.