The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

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

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

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

An obelisk marks the exact center of the continent, as per the calculations of the legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.