Paris, France
Centre Pompidou
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
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Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Cislano, Italy
A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.
Leggiuno, Italy
This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.
Mülenen, Switzerland
Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.
Beatenberg, Switzerland
Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.
Verzasca, Switzerland
This medieval footbridge in the Swiss Alps is known to attract cliff-jumping daredevils.
Gordola, Switzerland
If James Bond bungee-jumped off the side of a 720-foot dam, would you do it too?
Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Italy
This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Sirmione, Italy
On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
Venice, Italy
The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.
Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Described by William Wordsworth as a "World of Wonder."
Lairg, Scotland
This man-made waterfall was designed to help improve access for spawning salmon.