A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.

A lasting remnant of The Blitz.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

An abandoned village where the ruined foundations cling to a cliff.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

This makeshift concrete bunker is an unusual reminder of the Cold War.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

This Victorian water wheel is affectionately nicknamed "Little Isabella."

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

Honorable ranks graduating from the prestigious Army War College work hard to maintain their high standards of honor and erase those who don't.

This haunting sculpture stands as a memorial to the torture victims of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

This collection of Neolithic monuments make up one of The U.K.'s richest archeological landscapes.

The first Protestant church in Arizona and only Gothic Revival style adobe church in the world.