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

Commemorating Frankfurt's Jewish community and 11,908 victims of the Holocaust.

This historic vessel on display in Massachusetts made a dozen scientific expeditions into the Arctic.

The only Native American intaglio left in Wisconsin.

In a lighthouse by a vanished sea stands a museum for a man who never existed.

Under a breathtaking Buddhist temple in Vietnam is a basement exhibit that takes visitors to hell and back.

A massive marble pedestal is all that remains of a column that towered over Constantinople for 1300 years.

Amid the ruins of a church on the British island of Portland, a surprising symbol among the headstones.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.

These palatial ruins said to be inspired by Cambodia's Angkor Wat have been turned into a significant religious temple.

This historic bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island across whirlpool-filled waters.

Sprawling archeological site of an 8th-century Islamic castle.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

Crash site of a US National Guard C-47B plane that attempted to land at Gustavus airport in 1957 in bad weather.

The largest known wine barrel of the medieval era is visible from the street in Gubbio.

Iguanas roam in a lagoon inside a volcanic crater that erupted more than 2200 years ago.

One of America's oldest continuously operating hotels offers a blend of rich history and historic architecture in the heart of Annapolis.

Cages that once displayed the bodies of executed leaders hang from a German church tower.

An installation tells of the horrific 1964 tsunami that devastated Crescent City, California.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

A stone in a Victorian writer’s garden is a remnant of prehistoric Britain.

Seven centuries ago, its holy door opened for a forgiveness procession ritual that was later "copied" by the formal Catholic Jubilee.

Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.

Remnants of an architect's residence that displays his embrace of organic architecture.