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The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

This abandoned bunker looks out over the Atlantic from its clifftop perch.

This beach in Senegal marks the westernmost point on the African continent.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

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

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

This school was established during the height of the Australian Gold Rush.

A memorial to one of the saddest stories in Victoria's history.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.

This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.