A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A student driver's nightmare.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The sculptural remains of the last home of a legendary Dada artist.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

A circle stone within a stone circle.