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A historic building houses one of the most important archaeological institutes in Europe.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

This concrete church spent a period of its history as a World War II bunker.

Deep in the forest next to Augsburg are abandoned bunkers and bullet traps from the region's military past.

Is this statue at Naumberg Cathedral the fairest of them all?

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.

The largest mosque in Germany.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

This fountain tucked away in a park is the focal point of the only "Green Basilica" in Germany.

This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.

This unusual sculpture depicts how coins were made when minting was done by hand.

Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.