The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

Rows of multicolored bathing huts paint the sand dunes with pops of color.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.