Berlin, Germany
Schwerbelastungskörper
Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.
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Berlin, Germany
Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Dresden, Germany
Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
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.
Rome, Italy
The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.
Rome, Italy
More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.
Vatican City
Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
Schnals, Italy
Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.
Civita, Italy
This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.
Florence, Italy
The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.
New Harmony, Indiana
This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Cherrapunjee, India
Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.