Florence, Italy
Vasari Corridor
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
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Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Florence, Italy
The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.
Tournai, Belgium
After the construction of a nearby cathedral obstructed the view, the oldest belfry in Belgium was more than doubled in height.
Oviedo, Spain
Two large posteriors in one giant statue.
Oviedo, Spain
The surviving remnants of a destroyed medieval church now stand in a public park.
Seville, Spain
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Seville, Spain
This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.
Seville, Spain
A 16th-century Andalusian palace.
Seville, Spain
Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.
Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.
Seville, Spain
An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.
Seville, Spain
The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.
Glasgow, Scotland
This neon sign is an homage to an Alfred Hitchcock film.
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow's memorial to the International Brigade volunteers from Great Britain who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War.
Glasgow, Scotland
A unique art installation located on what was once considered the widest railway bridge in the world.
Glasgow, Scotland
This colorful mosaic remembers one of Britain's most deadly peacetime fires.
Larnaca, Cyprus
More than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers from across the globe call this museum home.
Larnaca, Cyprus
Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.
Nicosia, Cyprus
A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.
Nicosia, Cyprus
This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.
Lefkoşa, Cyprus
The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.
Karaman, Cyprus
The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.
Oxford, England
The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.