Poland
Muchołapka
A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
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Poland
A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
Fraserburgh, Scotland
An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.
Krásno, Czechia
A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.
Priozerskiy rayon, Russia
A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.
Znojmo, Czechia
This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Dolní Morava, Czechia
The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.
Pilsen, Czechia
Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.
Pilsen, Czechia
Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.
Vysoký Újezd, Czechia
This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.
Prague, Czechia
Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.
Prague, Czechia
The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
London, England
Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.