This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

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

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

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

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

This 17th-century mausoleum is topped with an acoustic marvel.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.

A Sri Lankan tea factory's ironic take on the Los Angeles landmark.