A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This dome-shaped mountain boasts amazing views and has a rich religious history.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

This Art Deco landmark claims to be the longest bridge over the shortest span of water in the world.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

Dozens of elegant ceramic tiles decorate these ancient walls, each displaying the Lord's Prayer in a different language.

A replica of the famous memorial statue at the Normandy American Cemetery hides in an office building in downtown D.C.

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The intense competition of the 19th-century fur trading industry played out at this fort in Western Canada.