The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

This eye-catching roundabout sculpture commemorates one of England's best World War II-era "shadow factories."

The obelisk honors the cyclist troops who were killed during World War I.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

A reportedly haunted 14th century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.

On a site with a long military history, a 1980s shelter.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

A 168-foot tower, part of the abandoned Chester Leadworks facility.

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

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

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.