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A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

One of the largest amphitheaters in Europe is a former Nazi German gathering place that still stands today.

This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

It's rumored this unique Baltic beacon was designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.