Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

This local emblem is the oldest and largest dragon tree in the Canary Islands.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

After several weeks of radio silence, this abandoned oil tanker washed up on a remote beach in Liberia.

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

One of the largest remaining ancient burial mounds of the 10th century.

This Ukranian fortress is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe.

This fortress-like monastery is covered with intricate frescoes.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

This sculpture used famed boxer Joe Louis as the inspiration behind its body.

According to a gruesome legend, an architect sacrificed his wife to build this spectacular, 16th-century cathedral.

An old spa town in the mountains of Romania where, according to legend, the great hero Hercules once bathed.

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

A rehabilitation center for confiscated, orphaned, and abandoned chimpanzees.

One of the most important Krio heritage sites in the country.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

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

One of the most notorious leaders of the French Revolution once lived here.

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

The northernmost point of continental Africa—or is it?