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A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

Power line with pylons on huge concrete bases to prevent terrorist attacks.

This mysterious pig iron pillar does not rust, despite being weathered by the elements for centuries.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

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

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.