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This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

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

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Venice's island of the dead.