What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.