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The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Berlin's old airport.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

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

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.