The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

These tenacious 14th-century towers defied demolition and are now a fairytale vacation rental.

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Lord Byron's embalmed body lies within this medieval church.

These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

These crude contraptions were used to aid in the mining of lead, silver and gold.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.