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The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

This Luxembourg cave is covered in cryptic looking marks left by mining activity.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.