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This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

Tour part of the Maginot Line bunker system built to defend France against a German invasion.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

This unique sculpture is often overlooked by pedestrians.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.