Heidelberg, Germany
Deutsches Verpackungs-Museum
A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.
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Heidelberg, Germany
A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Heidelberg, Germany
Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.
Heidelberg, Germany
This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.
Kiel, Germany
The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.
Shanghai, China
This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.
Bremen, Germany
A spitting ode to a German serial killer.
Bremen, Germany
Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.
Bremen, Germany
The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.
Bremen, Germany
Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Main Beach, Australia
The Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable that linked the continent to North America.
Põhja-Tallinna, Estonia
A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.
Copenhagen, Denmark
A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.
Laboe, Germany
This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.
Tallinn, Estonia
Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.
Bryrup, Denmark
The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.
Fairbourne, Wales
A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.
Capbreton, France
Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.
Ohrdruf, Germany
Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.
Veszprém, Hungary
The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.