This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This copper-coated, multi-arched dome is surrounded by a moat and lights up at night.

From a distance, this statue of an eagle looks like a giant chicken on a stick.

This roadside attraction became locally famous for its unintentionally phallic shape.

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.