French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Holding the current title of "biggest chair in the world," it stands with little fanfare in Lucena, Spain.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

Ever loyal to Roma, the small village of Albe in the Abruzzo region carried on until an earthquake did it in.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.