World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

One of the largest remaining ancient burial mounds of the 10th century.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.