Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg Studentenkarzer
A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.
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Heidelberg, Germany
A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Ansbach, Germany
The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.
Waidhofen, Germany
A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.
Rome, Italy
An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.
Cefalù, Italy
Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."
Guanajuato, Mexico
A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."
Guanajuato, Mexico
Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
Wamego, Kansas
During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.
Arlington, Virginia
Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
Halbe, Germany
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Grünwald, Germany
This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.
Berlin, Germany
Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.
Utrecht, Netherlands
'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.
IJsselstein, Netherlands
For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.
Utrecht, Netherlands
A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.
Ronda, Spain
An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.
The Hague, Netherlands
A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.
Formerum, Netherlands
Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.
Utrecht, Netherlands
This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.