Rajsamand, India
The Great Wall of India
The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Rajsamand, India
The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.
Chittorgarh, India
A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.
Heligoland, Germany
This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.
Lautertal (Odenwald), Germany
This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.
Paris, France
Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.
Paris, France
For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.
Paris, France
The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.
Paris, France
The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.
Hamburg, Germany
A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.
Prague, Czechia
A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.
Prague, Czechia
Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Prague, Czechia
Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.
Prague, Czechia
A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.
Prague, Czechia
This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.
Prague, Czechia
A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.
Berlin, Germany
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Berlin, Germany
This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.
Paris, France
The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.
Paris, France
For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.