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Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

This historic system is the zero level benchmark for measuring the depths and altitudes of the Baltic.

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

Rare documents, old instruments, and gruesome specimens showcase the history of military medicine.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

This abandoned beacon is moving closer and closer to the sea.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

A set of 27 bamboo tubes creates an eerie soundscape that changes with the wind.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.