Melnik, Czechia
Melník Chapel of Bones
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
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Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Blatce, Czechia
Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.
Cvikov, Czechia
The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.
Velké Losiny, Czechia
This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.
Kvačany, Slovakia
Scenic hike to a restored watermill.
Čičmany, Slovakia
A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.
Ochtiná, Slovakia
An unusual cave filled with rare alien-looking aragonite formations.
Šiatorská Bukovinka, Slovakia
Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.
Yokohama, Japan
A narrow, dead-end alley hides with a small fox shrine and the untold history of Yokohama's historic red-light district.
Ponte Nossa, Italy
This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.
Milan, Italy
A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Colares, Portugal
The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.
Colares, Portugal
One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."
Barrenta, Portugal
The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.
Fátima, Portugal
The ancient sauropod tracks found in this former quarry are some of the largest in the world.
Coimbra, Portugal
These 400-year-old ruins are all that's left of the monastery where Ines de Castro was assassinated by the King of Portugal.
Coimbra, Portugal
Nicknamed "Karri Knight," this Eucalyptus was planted in 1895 and stands at 72 meters.
Luso, Portugal
A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.
Arcozelo, Portugal
Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.
Valongo, Portugal
An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in the family since 1798.
Wehringen, Germany
Hidden in the forest are the crumbling, graffiti-covered remains of the factory where most of Germany's explosives were produced during World War II.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.