Schipkau, Germany
Bagger 258: The "Blue Wonder"
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
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Schipkau, Germany
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
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World's largest barrel containing an inn.
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An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.
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The highest cold-water geyser in the world.
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The largest brick bridge in the world.
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