Huelva, Spain
Grave of the Man Who Never Was
This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.
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Huelva, Spain
This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.
Ardales, Spain
Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.
Santa Luzia, Portugal
Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Alcantarilha, Portugal
This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.
Klaipėda, Lithuania
A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.
Rapa, Poland
A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.
Poznań, Poland
An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.
Chisinau, Moldova
There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.
Moldova
This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.
Tiraspol, Moldova
A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.
Milestii Mici, Moldova
The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.
Chisinau, Moldova
This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.
La Ferté-sur-Chiers, France
This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.
Thann, France
The remains of this castle, known as the Witch’s Eye, watch over the Thur Valley.
Tallinn, Estonia
"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.
Holubice, Czechia
A concrete plant shaped like four giant soldiers commemorates one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
Lidice, Czechia
The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.
Prague, Czechia
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Komiža, Croatia
An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.
Minsk, Belarus
A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.
Lahoisk District, Belarus
A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.
Smaliavicki rajon, Belarus
A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.