A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

A statue commemorating a Polish dog who took his role as man's best friend very seriously.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.