Peenemünde, Germany
Maritime Museum Peenemünde U-461
This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.
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Peenemünde, Germany
This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
Trassenheide, Germany
The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.
Zinnowitz, Germany
An elevator into the Baltic Sea.
Allinge, Denmark
Once a granite mine, this beautiful lake is the perfect place to cliff jump and zipline in Denmark
Allinge, Denmark
Northern Europe’s largest castle ruins sit precariously on an island cliffside.
Gudhjem, Denmark
This remote island, home to the easternmost point in Denmark, once hosted pirates and a military fortress.
Wolin, Poland
A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.
Gudhjem, Denmark
The largest of Denmark's seven mysterious round churches stands on an island in the Baltic Sea.
Rønne, Denmark
A whimsical sculpture garden right out of a children's storybook.
Nowe Bielice, Poland
At nearly four meters tall, this giant potato looms over a small Polish town.
La Pompe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
This century old flensing port is a remnant of a culture for whom whaling is still legal.
Turan, Russia
A tribute to Richard Feynman is carved into the land he planned to see but never got to visit.
Sevastopol, Ukraine
This vineyard was the site of the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.
Ndola, Zambia
A memorial marks the spot where a plane crash killed several United Nations members on a peace mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dokan, Iraq
Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.
Mejillones, Chile
This hidden pre-Columbian rock art depicts a whale hunt.
Jinja, Uganda
The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.
Ostashkov, Russia
Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."
Volgograd, Russia
Volcanic irregularity? Odd erosion? Alien eggs? Local legends compete to explain these strange orbs.
Arlandastad, Sweden
Sculpture of a bus made from wrecked passenger cars.
Lusaka, Zambia
The abandoned tower is the last remnant of Lusaka's first major power plant.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.