The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

A monument to the small town of master violin makers and its countless luthiers.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.