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This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

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

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

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

The middle finger of modernity.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.