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A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

The remains of three Luftwaffe launch pads designed for manned anti-aircraft missiles.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

Is it an island or a volcano? That question probably explains why it's uninhabited.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

Unused mast taller than every structure in the EU.

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

A museum dedicated to controversial Russian pianist Alexander Scriabin.

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

A Russian museum dedicated to the household staple, the samovar.

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

A curated museum of wooden sculptures inhabits this Russian home.

A model village fit for an emperor.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.