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It's difficult to imagine, but this charming house was once a police station.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Old Police Station at Slottsskogen

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

Cockerwiese (Joe Cocker Meadow)

Dresden, Germany

Cockerwiese (Joe Cocker Meadow)

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

St. Nicholas' Church

Hamburg, Germany

St. Nicholas' Church

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

James Clerk Maxwell Foundation

Edinburgh, Scotland

James Clerk Maxwell Foundation

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

The Library of Mistakes

Edinburgh, Scotland

Library of Mistakes

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

The Barbican Conservatory's Arid House.

London, England

Barbican Conservatory

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Viscardigasse

Munich, Germany

Viscardigasse

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Weiße Rose Pavement Memorial

Munich, Germany

Weiße Rose Pavement Memorial

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Georg Elser Plaque

Munich, Germany

Georg Elser Plaque

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

Spon Street

Coventry, England

Spon Street

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Mutrah Souq Entrance

Muscat, Oman

The Muttrah Souq

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

The mural, painted at Yarraville in 2003 by Peter McMahon.

Yarraville, Australia

The Trugo Mural

The artwork celebrates Trugo, a odd yet beloved local sport played only around Melbourne.

"Eye Glasses"

Herrnbaumgarten, Austria

Nonseum

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

Av.Rapp - Immeuble Lavirotte

Paris, France

Jules Lavirotte’s 29 Avenue Rapp

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Warning signs at the entrance of the Woomera test facility.

Woomera, Australia

Woomera Range Complex

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.

British Book Section of Cook & Book

Brussels, Belgium

Cook & Book

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

'Totem'

Leuven, Belgium

'Totem'

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

The "Snow Whites" at KU University, Leuven.

Leuven, Belgium

'Snow Whites' of Leuven

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

Stolpersteine plaques.

Berlin, Germany

Stolpersteine Holocaust Memorials

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Gauss' Grave in Cheltenhampark

Göttingen, Germany

Grave of Carl Friedrich Gauss

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

Foucault's Pendulum

Paris, France

Foucault’s Pendulum

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Rocchetta Mattei.

Riola, Italy

Rocchetta Mattei

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Plane landing, Barra Airport.

Isle of Barra, Scotland

Barra Airport

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

Spijkenisse, Netherlands

Book Mountain

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

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