Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

This giant radio telescope would be a rusting ruin if it hadn't become such a beloved relic.

The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

Unchanged for centuries, this medieval library keeps its books in chains.

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Rock carving created 1,300 years ago 75 feet off the ground.

Small transmitter operated by a priest in the Netherlands.

For the holidays, the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands turns into one of the world's tallest Christmas trees.

Electricity pylon standing in the middle of a shelter.

Most powerful transmitter in Germany only broadcasts in the French language.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.