Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
Douaumont Ossuary
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
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Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Strasbourg, France
A remnant of the Franco-Prussian War, lodged in the city's walls.
Metz, France
A neo-gothic statue modeled on German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had its distinctive mustache shaved off by Nazis in World War II.
Reims, France
An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Chioggia, Italy
A bridge to rival those in nearby Venice but without the crowds.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Sirmione, Italy
One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.
Sirmione, Italy
On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.
Milan, Italy
An artificial lake that opened in 1930 as a seaplane airport, now a park for aquatic activities.
Milan, Italy
Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.
Milan, Italy
Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Marmore, Italy
Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.
San Bernardino, California
This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Amboy, California
A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.
Amboy, California
The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.