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The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A marker honors the brief peace found by a tormented artist in the fictional land of Kcymaerxthaere.

This bombed church was given a new life as a contemporary art gallery.

These beautiful castle ruins are nestled in the Polish countryside.

A small square populated with giant birchwood sculptures.

A Soviet era flat that refused to conform to the dull gray standards.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

This wooden mosque is one of the few remnants of medieval Poland's Muslim Tatar community in this deeply Catholic country.

This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Legend says a giant, venomous spider once dwelled within this Polish church.

An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.

Atop this library is one of the most beautiful green spaces in Warsaw.

One of only two places in the world where two rivers cross each other without the waters mixing.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.