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Beautiful Cave Entrance

Beatenberg, Switzerland

St. Beatus Cave

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

The Jaquet-Droz Automata

Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Jaquet-Droz Automata

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

Saut de Brot

Boudry, Switzerland

Saut de Brot

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

Niesenbahn

MĂĽlenen, Switzerland

The Niesenbahn

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

The cross site at the peak of Mt. Sorgschrofen, viewed from below

Pfronten, Germany

The Jungholz Quadripoint

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

Landsberg Prison

Landsberg am Lech, Germany

Landsberg Prison

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

The Roman gravestone mounted in the wall of the church.

Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany

Roman Gravestone

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

Valentin Karlstadt Museum

Munich, Germany

Valentin Karlstadt Museum

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Munich, Germany

Eisbachwelle

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Helene Sedlmayr, the toy-selling young beauty of Munich

Munich, Germany

Schönheitengalerie (Gallery of Beauties)

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

A wolpertinger.

Munich, Germany

Deutsches Jagd und Fischereimuseum (German Museum of Hunting and Fishing)

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

Pont Julien

Bonnieux, France

Pont Julien

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.

A view of the Cloaca Maxima in 1814, as rendered by artist Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Rome, Italy

Cloaca Maxima

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

Medicine Wheel, a Native American sacred site in Wyoming.

Lovell, Wyoming

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The Very Old Oak Tree

Riga, Latvia

The Very Old Oak Tree

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

Augustinian Friar's Astrological Clock - one of the hands takes 20,000 years to revolve.

Vienna, Austria

Clock Museum

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The front of the memorial.

Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Grenup Monument

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

The ruins of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Daniels, Maryland.

Ellicott City, Maryland

Daniels

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Frick's Lock and the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant

Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Frick's Lock

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

The Colonial Theatre

Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Colonial Theatre

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

419.99 mile marker
Permanently Closed

Stratton, Colorado

419.99 Mile Marker

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

In the rafters of the Book Barn, dating back to 1822

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Baldwin's Book Barn

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Severed Arm of Saint Edmund

Stonington, Connecticut

Severed Arm of Saint Edmund

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum-Ha Noi

Hanoi, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

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