A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.