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This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

WWII rocket launchpad in rural Germany and site of operation backfire.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

Graffiti-clad ruins of an abandoned 1980s industrial site with a toxic past are nestled among residential houses.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

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

Dating back to the Pre-Roman Iron Age, this piece of bread is Europe's oldest surviving formed bakery product.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

This 19th-century outhouse has been recognized as a historic site.