Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

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

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

An underground city of salt.

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

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.