Garden Grove, California
Christ Cathedral (Crystal Cathedral)
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
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Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Berlin, Germany
The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.
Berlin, Germany
The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.
Oranienburg, Germany
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
Büren, Germany
This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Detmold, Germany
This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.
Prague, Czechia
This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Prague, Czechia
This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.
Prague, Czechia
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.
Prague, Czechia
This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”
Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czechia
Heralded as one of the prettiest castles in all of Czechia.