Kernersville, North Carolina
Körner’s Folly
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
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Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Modena, Italy
This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Budapest, Hungary
Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.
Budapest, Hungary
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.