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A series of recreated fortifications mark George Orwell's path through the Spanish Civil War.

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.

The cursed island of black pebbles.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

This abandoned fighter jet launch center is now a haunting street racing course.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.