Madrid, Spain
Palacio de Cristal
Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.
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Madrid, Spain
Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Glenslane, Ireland
This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.
Stromness, Scotland
Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.
Milton, Delaware
What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.
London, England
Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.
Budapest, Hungary
This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.
San Lawrenz, Malta
Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.
Clare, Ireland
A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.
Budapest, Hungary
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
London, England
A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.
Rome, Italy
A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Watch the ships come in on Michigan's 210 ft. high observation deck in Sault Ste. Marie.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.
Glasgow, Scotland
This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.
Oxford, England
A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.
Grantham, England
One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.
New York, New York
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
Saint Andrews, Scotland
This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.
Salzburg, Austria
Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.