Stafford, Virginia
Hogan's Alley
The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.
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Stafford, Virginia
The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.
Locust Grove, Virginia
The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Predjama, Slovenia
Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.
Bled, Slovenia
This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Ettal, Germany
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
Prague, Czechia
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
London, England
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Strange rumors surround the artist who created these solemn metal guard dogs.
Hiroshima, Japan
Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Bern, Switzerland
The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.
Fort Macleod, Alberta
Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.
Rome, Italy
This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
Salzburg, Austria
Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.
Nuremberg, Germany
A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.
Nuremberg, Germany
An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.