The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A little known pile of scraps and plaques mark the grave of a downed RAF bomber.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This basement museum explores the art and artistry of fascism.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.