Oswiecim, Poland
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
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Oswiecim, Poland
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Wallachia, Romania
The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The deepest metro station in the world.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Bucharest, Romania
This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.
Krakow, Poland
This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.
Minsk, Belarus
Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.
Turda, Romania
This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The place where World War I began.
Hudson, New Hampshire
A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.
Laconia, New Hampshire
The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.
Burlington, Vermont
Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Warren, New Hampshire
Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Montpelier, Vermont
Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.