Roermond, Netherlands
The Linked Headstones of Het Oude Kerkhof
Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.
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Roermond, Netherlands
Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.
Podgorica, Montenegro
Its frescoes depict the likeness of Marshal Tito, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels burning in hell.
Mojstrana, Slovenia
The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.
Tramonti di sotto, Italy
This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.
Bremen, Germany
Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.
Saulces-Monclin, France
The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.
Houyet, Belgium
The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.
Remouchamps, Belgium
Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.
Chisinau, Moldova
There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.
Solothurn, Switzerland
Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.
Belgium
Walk or bike along a narrow strip of Belgium sandwiched by German territory.
Poland
A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
Sierpnica, Poland
An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."
Donaueschingen, Germany
The great Danube river starts here.
Vidin, Bulgaria
The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.
Sögel, Germany
There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.
Liberec, Czechia
An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Zossen, Germany
Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
Rathen, Germany
This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.